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US
/ˈhɑɹdˌhɛdɪd/
]
[ UK /hˈɑːdhɛdɪd/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːdhɛdɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
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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 hardheaded In A Sentence
- Helva wondered whether Ansra, having taken a stand, was too hardheaded to retreat, or unable to believe that one of her standing could be violable. The ship who sang
- In that sense, Wilson takes a more hardheadedly political approach to the topic than Ellison: where Wilson makes Catholicism's spiritual failings part and parcel of the openly political challenge it poses to the nation, Ellison emphasizes the really-existing unity between Catholicism and the CofE, and focuses on Protestantism's negative moral effects. Academic
- If I weren't so damn hardheaded and love bowhunting so much, I would have traded that treestand time for more time fishing. Wisconsin Senator Demands Firing of State Deer Managers
- He is kind of hardheaded and doesn't want to take charity," Wolfe said. Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle
- A petite woman dressed in pearls and a well-tailored suit, she comes across as shrewd and hardheaded but not unsympathetic to her subjects.
- But since she was too hardheaded to give up, Walker would use her as a magnet to draw Andrew Carlisle to him. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
- ZAKARIA: It's a difficult question because McCain used to be more of a kind of hardheaded, pragmatic Republican, the type of Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft. CNN Transcript May 30, 2008
- Such decisions were a kind of hardheaded practicality he'd picked up from his father without really noticing he had done so. Delta Search
- When we hardheadedly choose to hold on to strife, we are choosing to step out of God’s protection. Become a Better You
- That's because Doctorow writes with the kind of hardheaded humor and logic that makes one suspect this book will be a mind-boggling delight.