hardlooking

English

Etymology

hard +‎ looking

Adjective

hardlooking (comparative more hardlooking, superlative most hardlooking)

1. Having a severe, vaguely menacing facial expression.
   • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 21, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 119:

     They sat in the backs of small, makeshift wagons, hardlooking men and women and their hardlooking, skinny children, preaching you over to their stand, promising your money's worth.