"hard-assery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011 December 23, Julia Barton, “I miss hating the Soviet Union”, in Salon.com, San Francisco, C.A.: Salon.com, LLC., →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-31",
          "text": "The Dallas RNC was a festival of Cold War hard-assery.",
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          "ref": "2013, Lisa McInerney, “Saturday, Boring”, in Kevin Barry, editor, Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories, London: Faber and Faber, page 47",
          "text": "They'd had two hours together last night. The Junior Cert was coming and her mam and dad were see-sawing between hardassery and judicial lenience, and on this occasion the lever had come down in her favour.",
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          "text": "Late one night, my daughter told me I was a cool mom, but by the next morning I was the worst, and I'm honestly not sure which assertion worried me more. I like to dazzle them with my hardassery and surprise them with grace. Keeps them on their toes.",
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          "ref": "2023 October 27, Kirsten Carey, “'Our Flag Means Death' Killed This Character at the Cruelest Time”, in The Daily Beast, New York, N.Y.: The Daily Beast Company LLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-30",
          "text": "A character previously defined by his contempt and hard-assery now was entering a party in beautiful makeup and hair to sing \"La Vie En Rose.\" That's quite the shift. Fans—newfound and old—adored it.",
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        "(vulgar) The quality of being a hard-ass (a tough and combative person)."
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        {
          "word": "jackassery"
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          "word": "kickassery"
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          "word": "smartassery"
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