hard-faced

One of the hard-faced officers explains that the security here is provided mostly by off-duty cops and correctional officers.

But so many people who have anything to do with horses and racing are such hard-faced people and so—so impossible!

Petersen was a tall, hard-faced man with a touch of gray at his temples.

His driver was a burly, hard-faced man, and instead of letting his horse stop a minute to rest he kept urging him forward.

Her daughter was a tall hard-faced girl of seventeen, meant for a child by her parents, but not meaning herself as such.

I guess he was too busy at the depot bringing a fat Dutchman and a crowd of hard-faced Dakota ploughboys in.