Hard-boiled in a sentence as an adjective

But those hard-boiled lawyers just said: Look, we have X-thousand patents.

He's sloowly coming around; one of his recent facebook statuses involved making hard-boiled eggs.

Most of the employees were the hard-boiled, Americanized, go-getting type to whom nothing in the world is sacred, except money.

Hard-boiled definitions

adjective

tough and callous by virtue of experience

See also: hard-bitten pugnacious

adjective

used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"

See also: case-hardened hardened

adjective

(eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid