hard-won

See also: hardwon

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Etymology

hard + won

Adjective

hard-won (comparative harder-won or more hard-won, superlative hardest-won or most hard-won)

  1. Having been obtained with effort, despite difficulty and hardship.
    • 2020 November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, in The A.V. Club:
      with those decades of life come many hard-won lessons, and at this stage of the game, McCartney’s not above preaching a bit.
    • 2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 72:
      The League of Nations, meanwhile, suffered a credibility gap as the United States never joined the organisation that its President argued was essential for preserving the hard-won peace.

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