: advocating or involving a rigidly uncompromising course of action
hard-liner noun

Examples of hard-line in a Sentence

a hard-line approach to the sentencing of repeat offenders
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Polling by Redfield & Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek showed 68 percent of Americans believed the federal government should adopt a more hard-line approach to immigration. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024 More hard-line members of Netanyahu’s party have pushed the prime minister to enact policies opposed to Gallant’s stances. Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Nov. 2024 The likelihood of funding drying up U.S. largesse toward Ukraine has become an increasingly tough sell to U.S. lawmakers, with months of delays and objections from hard-line Republicans over a $61-billion aid package that was eventually passed in spring. Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024 His thirty-two-year hard-line dictatorship witnessed political assassinations and the violent suppression of human rights by his army. Hung Duong, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hard-line 

Word History

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hard-line was in 1903

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“Hard-line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-line. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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