Anagrams of: HARDSTANDING

• the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position

• the audience at a stadium or racetrack

• a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof

• perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause

• lively and spirited

• marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

• graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting

• a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

• a cloth for washing dishes

• fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill

• worthless material that is to be disposed of

• worthless people

• nonsensical talk or writing

• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

• dispose of (something useless or old)

• express a totally negative opinion of