hard-liner
hard-liner
Definition
☆ hard·-liner (-ər)
noun
a person who takes a hard-line position
hard-liner
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- sack: Yeltsin reformed his administration by sacking the hard-liners and setting up a new balance between Lebed and Chernomyrdin.
- say: Ms. Farhi said the hard-liners also are shifting the debate from nuclear strategy to sovereignty.
Adjective modifier
- Western: A destructive ideological force drives both Western hard-liners and Islamic fundamentalists.
- real: Jakob was a real hard-liner and if he ever did have a sense of humor, he kept it very well hidden.
- old: And yet the man chosen to oversee agricultural reforms was that old hard-liner, Ligachev, who was not removed from power until 1990!
Browse dictionary entries near hard-liner
- hard-line
- hard landing
- hard labor
- hard-hitting
- hard hat
- hard handoff
- hard going
- hard-fisted
- hard-featured
- hard-edge
- hard maple
- hard-nosed
- hard of hearing
- hard-on
- hard palate
- hard-pressed
- hard rock
- hard rubber
- hard sauce
- hard science
