Similar words: hitting, fitting, sitting, witting, quitting, spitting, knitting, emitting. Meaning: adj. 1. characterized by or full of force and vigor 2. aggressively and persistently persuasive.
(31) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) this week published the fifth in a series of hard-hitting reports on the state of the Arab world. It makes depressing reading.
(32) Obama, who would be the first black American president, delivered a hard-hitting address vowing to renew his vision of the American Dream.
(33) BeThereFirst.org is a great example of how to create a microsite that has a hard-hitting impact on its target audiences and surpassed its fundraising goal.
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