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hard-boiled
Synonyms and Antonyms of hard-boiled
- a hard-boiled detective
callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, hard, hard-hearted, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, ironhearted, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, soulless, stony (also stoney), take-no-prisoners, thick-skinned, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful, unsparing, unsympathetic
boorish, heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, uncaring, unfriendly, unloving, unthinking
grim, hard-bitten, harsh, heavy-handed, oppressive, rough, rough-and-tumble, severe, sledgehammer, stern, tough, ungentle
abusive, acrimonious, disagreeable, hateful, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, virulent
barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, evil-minded, savage, vicious
- made the hard-boiled business decision to downsize the company, thereby costing thousands of longtime employees their jobs
artful, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
discerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise
agile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted
artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve)
exploitable, gullible (also gullable)
birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey (also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, softheaded, stupid, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, weak-minded
foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witless
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