Synonyms
- adamant
- adamantine
- bullheaded
- dogged
- hard
- hardened
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- immovable
- implacable
- inconvincible
- inflexible
- intransigent
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- opinionated
- ossified
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- self-opinionated
- self-willed
- stiff-necked
- stubborn
- unbending
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- willful
- wilful
Examples of hard-nosed in a Sentence
the team's hard-nosed coach doesn't make exceptions for anybody
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Trump has tried to soften his image on immigration restriction, if not his hard-nosed approach to policy.
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Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
This was the essence of Roosevelt’s hard-nosed, pragmatic belief in peace through action, not merely through words and ideas.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
Train cars are an arena to verbally spar with hard-nosed reporters who are thoroughly won over by the mouths of these boys.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
But documents already unsealed by the courts reveal remarkable details about private proposals for a wide range of hard-nosed tactics that would go beyond public efforts like ads, op-eds and meetings to discourage the No Labels campaign.
—Michael Scherer The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2024
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Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
This was the essence of Roosevelt’s hard-nosed, pragmatic belief in peace through action, not merely through words and ideas.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
Train cars are an arena to verbally spar with hard-nosed reporters who are thoroughly won over by the mouths of these boys.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
But documents already unsealed by the courts reveal remarkable details about private proposals for a wide range of hard-nosed tactics that would go beyond public efforts like ads, op-eds and meetings to discourage the No Labels campaign.
—Michael Scherer The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Hard-nosed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-nosed. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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