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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
- In the telling of the history of the West, “bottom-up” scholars replaced the silly romanticism of older historians with a far more intelligent and hardheaded narrative of American expansion. A Renegade History of the United States
- ZAKARIA: But there's also a part of it that has to do with foreign policy, where the Republican Party that you served under seemed to stand for something very coherent, a kind of hardheaded internationalism, engagement, pragmatism. CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2008
- Unlike many of those who came after him, he was hardheadedly political and saw statesmen’s deeds as central to the life of a people. THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
- My informal queries revealed that those associated with you regard you as a brilliant, hardheaded maverick.
- Luther's Protestantism is a grand theology, a sonorous earnest hardheaded Christianity.
- Osumi, sensei, thought that an American might be too hardheaded for seiki to enter, so she went overboard in softening him up. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
- Evan Mecham as "hardheaded" and called on him to resign, and two years later stated that the Republican party had been taken over by a Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- a hardheaded appraisal of our position
- Luther's Protestantism is a grand theology, a sonorous earnest hardheaded Christianity.
- It is permissible to cast this as popular ignorance but more accurate to name it recalcitrance, the hardheaded preference of some colonists for their own common version of what was lawful.