ADJECTIVE
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guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
completely practical in his approach to business
a hard-nosed labor leader
a hardheaded appraisal of our position
not ideology but pragmatic politics
How To Use hard-nosed In A Sentence
- Remember, he is more accustomed to interviews with fawning, gushy, fans, rather than with more hard-nosed journalists.
- A hard-nosed unmoveable man, who sacrifices his lovely daughter to ward off future kidnap threats on his beloved son.
- They are wholly unfitted, by temperament and training, for the cut-throat, hard-nosed commercial environment in which they now find themselves.
- Has it taken until now for these hard-nosed businessmen to finally twig they have been sold one pup after another? The Sun
- Far from seeming hard-nosed and realistic, they suddenly appear beside the point, if not immoral.
- To protect against this requires a strong willed BOFH-style Operations team and the odd hacker if possible to carry out penetration tests, along with a hard-nosed Information Security officer to simple say "that's not going live". Archive 2007-04-01
- They were considered the epitome of hard-nosed business thinking about public problems.
- Longshoremen rank with teamsters in the lore of hard-nosed trade unionists and Hobsbawm preferred their leader's politics.
- Companies run by hard-nosed business people wouldn't be spending millions on it if it didn't work.
- A hard-nosed attitude says no, obviously not. Times, Sunday Times
