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hard-nosed

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Adjective

guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
- a hardheaded appraisal of our position
- a hard-nosed labor leader
- completely practical in his approach to business
- not ideology but pragmatic politics

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Synonyms:
hardheaded practical pragmatic

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