adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 (of a person) having very fixed beliefs and being unlikely or unwilling to change them:
a hard-line Communist
2 (of ideas) very fixed and unlikely to change:
a hard-line attitude
hardliner noun:
a Republican hardliner
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