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Definition of Hard-nosed
1. Adjective. Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory. "Not ideology but pragmatic politics"
Similar to: Realistic
Derivative terms: Practicality, Practice, Pragmatism
Definition of Hard-nosed
1. Adjective. guided by practical experience and observation rather than by theory ¹
2. Adjective. (idiomatic) hardheaded ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-nosed
Literary usage of Hard-nosed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Benefits and Costs of Highway and Transit Investments: Highlights of an (2005)
"How can you let these views in and still force the conversation about them to be
reasonably clear sighted and hard nosed? DR. LEWIS: That goes to my point ..."
2. The Mount Vernon Street Warrens: A Boston Story, 1860-1910 by Martin Burgess Green (1880)
"96 He composed a satirical sonnet about the hardheaded or hard-nosed company and
its plans for the workers: But paper made of pulp, and pulp of men Appears ..."
3. Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governor by Richard A. Hogarty (2001)
"As a hard-nosed lawyer, he did not shy away from conflict. If he could be hard
on himself, he could be even harder on those who did not play ball with him. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of by Montana Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Montana (1922)
"... by hard-nosed bullets, and if a soft-nosed bullet would not mushroom as soon
as it struck tissue, the state was properly permitted on redirect, ..."
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