tough
IPA: tˈʌf
noun
- A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
verb
- To endure.
- To toughen.
adjective
- (of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.
- (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
- (of a person or animal) Rugged or physically hardy.
- (of a person) Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence.
- (of weather, etc.) Harsh or severe.
- Rowdy or rough.
- (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
- (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
- Strict, not lenient.
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Examples of "tough" in Sentences
- It is a tough job to canalize.
- Cycloid is tough and eager to fight.
- It's a tough, thankless job betimes.
- Minami is the tough guy of the group.
- He is tough, unforgiving and unyielding.
- It was the tough sectional final losses.
- The discipline was tough and the pay was poor.
- It was especially tough for the students to calibrate.
- The prescription is easy but the implementation tough.
- If the language was coarse and unseemly as a result, tough.
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- President Bush conceding the U.S. economy right now going through what he calls a tough time.
- Dormer suggested that she had become hopelessly entangled in the brush, which he called a "tough, desolate, tangled mess."
- With a snort, she propped her elbows on the table and stared at him intently, her expression tough and vulnerable at the same time.
- Referring to what he called tough decisions put off for a long time, Obama said political leaders in Washington will have to compromise.
- But the big question is whether or not he can really move forward with what he called his tough diplomacy with Iran if, in fact, Iran's own people don't consider its own leader legitimate.
- The French president and German chancellor hastily convened a late-night press conference after holding what they called "tough and hard" emergency talks with the Greek prime minister on the margins of the G20 summit in Cannes.
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