hardboiled Definition

tough, noirish, pulpy, cyberpunk, holmesian, picaresque, hitchcockian, unheroic, satiric, sherlockian, gritty, blaxploitation, unsentimental, droll, crusty, suave, misanthropic, runyonesque, dislikable, gruff, blackhearted, taciturn, raffish, hemingwayesque, rakish, humorless, dostoyevskian, straitlaced, crackerjack, wry, acidulous, smirky, saturnine, urbane, erudite, crusading, sardonic, mephistophelean, moralistic, scabrous, overfamiliar, clubbable, mordant, seriocomic, supercilious, epicene, epigrammatic, lamby, glib, straightlaced, muckraking, unctuous, hardbitten, frowsy, witty, sententious, gamy, smarmy, dishy, weaselly, deadpan, rebarbative, donnish, neurasthenic, wittedness, unembellished, juiceless, sly, doltish, pugilistic, nabokovian, unsweet, stolid, slangy, amoral, unshowy, swiftian, cloddish, tenderhearted, writerly, undogmatic, novelistic, rabelaisian, goatish, melodramatic, grizzled, echt, smarm, lumpish, softhearted, nihilistic, streetwise, lowbrow, teacherly, sociopathic, dandified, genial, flinty, gristly, overdetermined,