Hard
Hard adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
Usage example: a hard man, who never had a kind word for anyone
Sensitive
Sensitive adjective - Easily injured without careful handling.
Usage example: the sensitive skin of a newborn mouse
Both words in one sentence
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The sensitive and charismatic blues musician Jimmy Reed and his tough and hard-boiled manager Al Smith.
Source: Sensitive Guy and Manly Man - The lead character in Johnny Mnemonic has an 80 Gb hard drive implanted in his brain for the purposes of carrying sensitive infodata.
Source: Human Hard Drive - In La Femme Nikita, some sensitive information is stored on shadow drives — hard drives which must be read backwards, or they will erase their data.
Source: Self-Destructing Security
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Sensitive or Hard. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard/sensitive.
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