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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hard looking" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe someone's appearance or demeanor as tough, serious, or unfriendly. Example: "The man had a hard-looking face, with deep lines etched across his forehead and a stern expression that made others wary of him."
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He was a hard looking man, short and solemn.
He describes two strangers as "hard looking fellows all dried out and salted down for keeping".
Passion was blinding him to danger, though, and he swung hard looking for a knockout.
She dug hard, looking for my seams, wanting me to tear like always, but I didn't, I wasn't going to.
Alison Thompson, assistant coroner, commented: "For everybody involved it will be very hard looking at these events ten years later".
They wonder whether parents are driving sons too hard, looking ahead to college scholarships or major league careers.
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They are hard to look at, hard to look away from and hard to forget.
Someone has to take a hard look.
We need to take a hard look.
She gave me a hard look.
I gave Xiyun a long, hard look.
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