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hard-nosed

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Adjective hard-nosed has 1 sense
  1. hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic - 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"
    Antonym: unrealistic (indirect, via realistic)
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