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Hard-nosed

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Guided by practical experience and observation rather than by theory.
  2. 2
    Hardheaded, stubborn. idiomatic
  3. 3
    Tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
Adjective
  1. 1
    guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory wordnet

Etymology

hard + nosed; originally referred to hard-tipped bullets.

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