hardline

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Adj.

hardline - firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy"

uncompromising, inflexible, sturdy - not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"

hardline

hard-line

adjective tough, extreme, strict, definite, uncompromising, single-minded, inflexible, diehard, unyielding, intransigent, immoderate, undeviating They've taken a lot of criticism for their hard-line stance.

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impitoyable intransigeant

hardline

hard-line [ˌhɑː^rdˈlaɪn] adj [communist, republican, unionist] → pur(e) et dur(e); [policy, stance] → jusqu'au-boutiste, intransigeant(e)

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It's not hardline, it's democracy IT is not often that I disagree with Eddie Sanders (Birmingham Mail, July 29).

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There is Boris the bumbling clown and Johnson the hardline, Tory Prime Minister who heads a Cabinet of hardline Brexiteers on the right of the Tory Party.

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