Definition of "hard-featured" [hard•-fea•tured]

• Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. (adjective)

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• "The latter were big, hard-featured, sheepish-faced men, who stared at Saxon as if afraid of her."
• "The children of the neighbourhood were afraid of the hard-featured shrew who presided over the Bartell house; but, summoning their resolution, they rang the bell and told Ann Bartell of the accident."
• "What was it about this hard-featured man that inspired such confidence?"