Thesaurus / hardheaded
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As I’ve said, he’s a hardheaded guy who’s not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering.
TWO SIMPLE RULES FOR PROGRESSING AT ANYTHINGCOBRIENJULY 21, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINELike all romancers, she is a little terrified at seeing one of her wildest conceits admitted by the hardheaded world.
SONG OF THE LARKWILLA CATHERAnd she was glad to see that the hardheaded old miller was not much impressed by the man, either.
RUTH FIELDING ON THE ST. LAWRENCEALICE B. EMERSONThe son of the hardheaded father came out at a crisis; and not too highhandedly: he could hear an opposite argument to the end.
THE AMAZING MARRIAGE, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHHe was thorough, practical, and after he had cut his mountain teeth in the Peace River disaster, a hardheaded man at his work.
THE DAUGHTER OF A MAGNATEFRANK H. SPEARMANThe man of science like the man in the street has to face hardheaded facts that cannot be blinked and explain them as best he can.
ULYSSESJAMES JOYCE"Cap'n Van Dyck's all right, only he's too dum hardheaded," he confided.
PIRATES' HOPEFRANCIS LYNDEThey were fond of me after the manner of hardheaded, practical people; they had more reason than heart in their affection for me.
ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, VOLUME 5 (OF 13)GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe pride ourselves upon being realistic, desiring a hardheaded cognizance of facts, and devoted to mastering the means of life.
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCEJOHN DEWEY, ADDISON W. MOORE, HAROLD CHAPMAN BROWN, GEORGE H. MEAD, BOYD H. BODE, HENRY WALDGRAVE, STUART JAMES, HAYDEN TUFTS, HORACE M. KALLENDad's either too hardheaded or has not enough religion to own up to a fault.
AROUND OLD BETHANYROBERT LEE BERRYWORDS RELATED TO HARDHEADED
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- bitter
- bullheaded
- by the book
- cruel
- disciplinary
- dyed-in-the-wool
- flinty
- forbidding
- frowning
- grim
- hang-tough
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-core
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- hard-shell
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- harsh
- implacable
- inexorable
- inflexible
- mortified
- mulish
- relentless
- rigid
- rigorous
- rough
- severe
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- stiff-necked
- strict
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- tough
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unyielding
- adamant
- balky
- bloody-minded
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- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
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- insubordinate
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- relentless
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- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
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- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
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- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
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- obdurate
- opinionated
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- pertinacious
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- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
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- uncompliant
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- adamantine
- balky
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- cantankerous
- contumacious
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- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
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- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
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- insubordinate
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- iron
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- brick-wall
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- immalleable
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- impliable
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- locked-in
- merciless
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- single-minded
- solid
- staunch
- stiff
- stiff-necked
- stubborn
- tough
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmovable
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unwavering
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