hard-core

hard-core
/hahrd"kawr", -kohr"/, adj.
1. unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
2. pruriently explicit; graphically depicted: hard-core pornography.
3. being so without apparent change or remedy; chronic: hard-core inflation; hard-core unemployment. Cf. soft-core.
[1950-55]

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