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Hard-hitting   Listen
adjective
hard-hitting  adj.  
1.
Characterized by or full of force and vigor; forceful; as, a hard-hitting expose.
Synonyms: trenchant, vigorous.
2.
Aggressive; as, a hard-hitting advertising campaign. Opposite of unaggressive.
Synonyms: high-pressure.






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"Hard-hitting" Quotes from Famous Books



... old slave, Agias had rushed out into the street. He had a double game to play—to prevent Phaon from ever reaching Praeneste, and then get such help to Drusus as would enable him to beat off Dumnorix and his gang. For Agias felt certain that the hard-hitting Gaul would execute his part of the bargain, whether he met Phaon or not, and afterward look into the consequences of what—unmitigated by the freedman's finesse—would take the form of an open ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis

... his heirs paid for,—from June 4th, 1696, to September 3d of the same year, three months. I observe he charges for visits as well as for medicines, which is not the case in most of his bills. He opens the attack with a carminative appeal to the visceral conscience, and follows it up with good hard-hitting remedies for dropsy,—as I suppose the disease would have been called,—and finishes off with a rallying dose ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Words linked to "Hard-hitting" :   effectual, efficacious, trenchant



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