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Example sentences for: hard-working

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Beaver: hard-working, useful, interesting, intelligent, thickset.
And the man is the equal of his image: He is honest, hard-working, faithful, religious, patriotic, a devoted father and a loving husband.
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Some critics praise the film for featuring a hard-working family instead of Hollywood's usual black "pimps and junkies" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Others say it just replaces a negative stereotype with a schmaltzy one: "[I]t pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Photos and the like are available here.)
But it's directed primarily against hard-working, newly immigrant Asian-Americans.