Definitions for hard-nosed

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Spelling: [hahrd-nohzd]
IPA: /ˈhɑrdˌnoʊzd/

Hard-Nosed is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 532 anagrams from letters in hard-nosed (-addehnors).

Definitions for hard-nosed

adjective

  1. hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical:

Origin of hard-nosed

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for hard-nosed

Unwilling to negotiate with hard-nosed Republicans, Obama installed Cordray in January in a recess appointment.

“Politics is a hard-nosed game, and the right has been playing Marquess of Queensbury Rules for a long time on this,” he said.

hard-nosed criticism is squeezed out by soft stories, gossip and fluff.

Morgan did his darnedest to humanize the hard-nosed media mogul.

He was a hard-nosed realist with impeccable military credentials: Palmach hero, IDF Chief-Of-Staff and Defense Minister.

Documents released by the British archives reveal Thatcher as a hard-nosed opponent of Israel's West Bank settlement project.

Not with rhetoric, but with hard-nosed, non-partisan realism.

To me this would demonstrate a hard-nosed determination that all citizens should find frightening.

These are hard-nosed assessments five months out from the election, and the Obama campaign ignores them at its peril.

Normally an air accident investigation would involve a swarm of hard-nosed engineers and scientists poring over wreckage.

Word Value for hard-nosed
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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