Definition of "chiseled" [chiseled]

• Made or shaped with or as if with a chisel: a finely chiseled nose. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Now, in-your-face religious conservatives want the phrase chiseled in front of us at court, at work and in our kids' schools."
• "Sure as I am that there’s a condo of sorts waiting down at the cemetery with my name chiseled on the mailbox."
• "As well as being a handsome fellow chiseled from the same fine stock as myself, this fellow glutton and vomiter-upon-the-backs-of-the-people is - like Congress - merely a (albeit rotund and disgusting) puppet who embraces only those ideals his corporate masters instruct him to embrace."