Definition of "hard-faced" [hard-faced]

• Having a hard or stern face; hard-featured.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "James Smith was a hard-faced man, and my heart sank as I encountered him."
• "He was a big hard-faced 'blue-noser' from Nova Scotia, and a braver skipper never took a ship through the Golden Gate to sea."
• "They were white men, like us, but they were hard-faced, stern-faced, sombre, and they seemed angry with all our company."