Word: hard-boiled
Category: hard-boiled
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Related words: hard-boiled
hard-boiled eggs, hard-boiled egg, hard-boiled wonderland
Synonyms: hard-boiled
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: hard-boiled
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french
Translations:
rude
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russian
Translations:
неподатливый, черствый, прожженный, бесчувственный, крутой, искушенный
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czech
Translations:
hrubý
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polish
Translations:
niezmienny, twardy, bezwzględny
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ukrainian
Translations:
байдужий, черствий, крутою, крутий, непіддатливий
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estonian
Translations:
kalestunud, elukogenud
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slovak
Translations:
hrubý
The meaning and "use of": hard-boiled
adjective
- (of an egg) boiled until the white and the yolk are solid. - David's plan informed me that I was allowed to snack on two celery sticks, half a red pepper, plus some chopped hard-boiled egg white - whereupon I told David to stuff it, and ate a bowl of Frosties and three marshmallows.
- (of a person) tough and cynical. - Even hard-boiled sceptics will be stupefied at what is on sale there in place of the current literature: Neatly arranged and priced, as if they were the major works on the Nazi era, are the administrative reports of the memorial.
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