Synonym: hardheaded, practical, pragmatic. Similar words: hardness, nosedive, richard nixon, a hard nut to crack, hard-pressed, nose, forwardness, nose out. Meaning: adj. guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory.
1. We all like John; he plays hard-nosed football.
2. If nothing else, Doug is a hard-nosed businessman.
3. His hard-nosed business approach is combined with a very real concern for the less fortunate in society.
4. There will no hard-nosed trade negotiations on this trip.
5. Holbrooke has a justified reputation as a hard-nosed negotiator.
6. That was hard-bitten, hard-nosed, hard-drinking newshound Edgar Allan Poe.
7. Or the hard-nosed, insistent, tough approach.
8. To be very hard-nosed there is also a vested interest in running an efficient information service for a band.
9. For sheer bravado, hard-nosed business sense and a cunning understanding of human frailty, Agnes deserves admiration.
10. Philadelphia, which has a reputation for manufacturing tough, hard-nosed fighters.
11. Then they were going to march into the hard-nosed suburb of Cicero.
12. Hard-nosed policemen in unmarked cars belonged to a world of violence and intimidation he had no wish to enter.
13. The fact that you are very hard-nosed about weeding out unethical behavior helps.
14. He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer.
15. Sir Lewis' avuncular features mask a hard-nosed businessman unafraid of putting financial exigency before personal sentiment.
16. Its current experiment in Africa mixes a hard-nosed but clear-eyed self-interest with the lessons of China's own successful development and of decades of its failed aid projects in Africa.
17. A hard-nosed pragmatism is generally considered to be China's guiding principle at home and abroad: whatever produces growth in gross domestic product.
18. And a government-appointed receiver — someone hard-nosed and nonpolitical — should have broad power to revamp G.M. with a viable business plan and return it to a private operation as soon as possible.
19. Hard-nosed CEOs in the business world now recognize that in the era of networks and alliances, companies can make billions without beating others.
20. This is the kind of hard-nosed pragmatism that gets results in public health.
21. McGee is a hard-nosed "salvage expert" — actually a private eye who lives on a boat (called The Busted Flush) and is one of the most memorable detective characters since Sherlock Holmes.
22. For some one who worked in what she believed to be such a hard-nosed profession he retained a sensitive streak.
23. Breeding programs for apes are a failure, and even hard-nosed experimenters will be turning the tide.
24. The book is certainly authoritative but may well daunt the uncommitted reader by its relentlessly hard-nosed factuality.
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25. Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis?
26. When it comes to day-to-day operations, the increasingly dire situation cries out for hard-nosed decisions and solid business management.
27. Its distinction is that it has combined campaigning lawyering with hard-nosed commercial practice.
28. Often former gang members and graduates of the prison system, the interrupters have a hard-nosed approach to law and order.
29. Whether he realizes it or not, that kind of hard-nosed, chip-toothed frugality is exactly what is called for in these economically tossed times.
More similar words: hardness, nosedive, richard nixon, a hard nut to crack, hard-pressed, nose, forwardness, nose out, awkwardness, nosegay, diagnose, diagnoses, nosepiece, closed, opposed, composed, supposed, imposed, exposed, close down, disposed, proposed, enclosed, composedly, disclosed, supposedly, hard, indisposed, closed loop, closed shop.