hard-boiled
hard-boiled
Definition
hard·-boiled (härd′bo̵ild′)
adjective
- cooked in boiling water until both the white and yolk solidify: said of eggs
- ☆ Informal not affected by sentiment, pity, etc.; tough; callous
hard-boiled
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- egg: She can put away 552 oysters in 10 minutes, or 52 hard-boiled eggs in just five.
- novel: The hard-boiled crime novel went into decline in the 1960s, killed off by the pop culture, Haut argues.
- detective: At times Wallander seems too much like the traditional hard-drinking, hard-living, hard-boiled detective of old, but he is more than that.
- fiction: It has several sub-genres, including detective fiction ( including the whodunnit ), legal thriller, courtroom drama, and hard-boiled fiction.
- eye: Suddenly, on a sort of velvety background I saw two disembodied eyes, hard-boiled eyes like those of the actor, Peter Lorre.
- style: Burke's writing is the antithesis of the pared-down, hard-boiled style of the American school of crime fiction.
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