hard-edged

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Recent Examples of hard-edged The Good, the Bad and the Painterly As Bouancheau fashioned a Puss that was more lyrical, like a character that stepped out of a fairy tale book and less hard-edged, all the other characters followed suit. Karen Idelson, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-edged
Adjective
  • Matchmaking has granted Lucy a coolly pragmatic, unsentimental view of love.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • This is graceful, quietly intelligent filmmaking—including a touch of unsentimental magic realism involving a wise and beautiful Norwegian Forest Cat.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • At times, the Administration seemed to be testing how much destruction Americans would tolerate, if it was packaged as tough-minded business wisdom.
    Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • Everyone in the studio nods along to Paco’s tough-minded flexes and mafioso folktales.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Too often, leaders are stuck between moral maximalism and cynical cost-cutting.
    HEC Paris Insights, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Mamdani proposes to pay for these splendid gifts to the city’s voters by raising taxes even further on the city’s top income earners, in the cynical belief that those who make up his tax base are stuck there, cannot flee, and are thus cows to be helplessly milked.
    The Editors, National Review, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Innovation Without Truth: The Theranos Effect In tech, the startup world thrives on bold vision but also demands grounded validation.
    Oscar Chavez-Arrieta, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Focus on nurturing connections that feel grounded and authentic, not those that seem too good to be true.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • While nothing is set in stone yet, this weekend would be the most logical time.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025
  • In an interview with People about the move, Bateman said twice that most people listen to podcasts on phones, and therefore the telecom industry is a logical one for podcasters to enter.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • President Donald Trump’s court challenge failed during his first term because his administration did not provide the U.S. Supreme Court with a rational government basis for terminating the program.
    Darren Soto, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
  • The court's majority found that Tennessee's law is not subject to a heightened level of judicial review and satisfies the most deferential standard, known as rational basis.
    June 18, CBS News, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • As a no-nonsense curmudgeon with a heart of gold, Bubba Ray took to coaching the Season 1 cast of WWE LFG like a duck to water.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • The 29-year-old’s no-nonsense defending from right-back can keep wingers under wraps.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 17 June 2025

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“Hard-edged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-edged. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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