Words similar to tough

Example sentences for: tough

How can you use “tough” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The photographs in the museum show are primarily tough, direct found-object still-lifes, clearly descended from Walker Evans and related to Robert Frank.
William S. Cohen talks tough in a WP Sunday Outlook piece.
A real tough Jew.
The softness and hardness at issue here are not, of course, the words having literally to do with the physical properties of the same name, but rather the higher, metaphorical qualities associated with the words: that is, hard in the sense of "stern," "uncompromising," "grim," "tough," "realistic," "verifiable," or "physically palpable"; and soft in the sense of "moderate," "subjective," "subject to emotion," "simple," "idealistic," "weak," or "physically immaterial."
"Trust Me, After the Viet Cong, Those Candy-Asses at Philip Morris Don't Seem So Tough"-- Andrew Solovay