hardboiled
verb
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To cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.
adjective
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(of a boiled egg) Cooked to a solid consistency.
(of a person, especially of a detective) Callous and unsentimental.
Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect (characterizes hard-boiled fiction, a subgenre of detective fiction)