Thesaurus / no-nonsense
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They mostly had a no-nonsense look about them, as if they were not going to be satisfied with more oratory.
AND THEN THE TOWN TOOK OFFRICHARD WILSONWith their compact bodies and no-nonsense mannerisms they were recognizably Pyrran.
DEATHWORLDHARRY HARRISON"I've been looking around," Malone said in what he hoped was a grim, no-nonsense tone.
OCCASION FOR DISASTERGORDON RANDALL GARRETTHe won't be capable of taking a no-nonsense, dogmatic, black-and-white stand.
PSICHOPATHGORDON RANDALL GARRETTHe was as much a "no-nonsense" fellow, in his way, as a magistrate, or a minister.'
EVAN HARRINGTON, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITH"This is a grave case, Mrs. Chesney," he said, in his abrupt "no-nonsense-now" voice.
SHADOWS OF FLAMESAMELIE RIVESWORDS RELATED TO NO-NONSENSE
- austere
- bound
- bound and determined
- businesslike
- cold sober
- contemplative
- deadpan
- deliberate
- determined
- downbeat
- earnest
- funereal
- genuine
- go for broke
- grave
- grim
- honest
- intent
- long-faced
- meditative
- no-nonsense
- pensive
- pokerfaced
- reflective
- resolute
- resolved
- sedate
- set
- severe
- sincere
- sober
- solemn
- staid
- steady
- stern
- thoughtful
- unhumorous
- unsmiling
- weighty
- 24-carat
- aboveboard
- actual
- artless
- bona fide
- candid
- dead-level
- dear
- devout
- earnest
- faithful
- for real
- forthright
- frank
- genuine
- guileless
- heartfelt
- honest-to-God
- honest-to-goodness
- like it is
- meant
- natural
- no-fooling
- no-nonsense
- on the level
- on the line
- on the up and up
- open
- outspoken
- plain
- pretensionless
- real
- regular
- righteous
- saintly
- serious
- square
- sure-enough
- true
- true-blue
- trustworthy
- unaffected
- undesigning
- undissembled
- unfeigned
- unpretentious
- up-front
- wholehearted
- aboveboard
- actual
- artless
- bona fide
- candid
- dead-level
- dear
- devout
- earnest
- faithful
- forthright
- frank
- genuine
- guileless
- heartfelt
- honest to God
- like it is
- meant
- natural
- no fooling
- no-nonsense
- on the level
- on the line
- on up and up
- open
- outspoken
- plain
- pretensionless
- real
- regular
- righteous
- saintly
- serious
- square
- sure enough
- true
- true-blue
- trustworthy
- twenty-four carat
- unaffected
- undesigning
- undissembled
- unfeigned
- unpretentious
- wholehearted
- abstaining
- clear-headed
- cold
- collected
- composed
- constrained
- cool
- dark
- disciplined
- dispassionate
- down-to-earth
- drab
- earnest
- eschewing
- forgoing
- grave
- hard-boiled
- imperturbable
- inhibited
- levelheaded
- low-key
- lucid
- no-nonsense
- pacific
- plain
- practical
- quiet
- rational
- realistic
- reasonable
- reserved
- restrained
- sedate
- serene
- serious
- severe
- soft
- solemn
- somber
- sound
- staid
- steady
- subdued
- toned-down
- unexcited
- unimpassioned
- unruffled
- austere
- bound
- bound and determined
- businesslike
- cold sober
- contemplative
- deadpan
- deliberate
- determined
- downbeat
- earnest
- funereal
- genuine
- go for broke
- grave
- grim
- honest
- in earnest
- intent
- long-faced
- meditative
- no-nonsense
- pensive
- pokerfaced
- reflective
- resolute
- resolved
- sedate
- set
- severe
- sincere
- sober
- solemn
- staid
- steady
- stern
- thoughtful
- unhumorous
- unsmiling
- weighty
- black
- bleak
- blue
- caliginous
- cloudy
- dark
- depressive
- dim
- dingy
- dire
- dismal
- dispiriting
- doleful
- down
- drab
- dragged
- dreary
- dull
- dusky
- earnest
- funereal
- gloomy
- grave
- grim
- hurting
- joyless
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mournful
- murky
- no-nonsense
- obscure
- sedate
- sepulchral
- serious
- shadowy
- shady
- sober
- solemn
- sourpuss
- staid
- tenebrous
- weighty
- austere
- dead set
- disciplinary
- dour
- draconian
- exacting
- firm
- forbidding
- grim
- hard
- hard-boiled
- harsh
- iron-fisted
- no-nonsense
- oppressive
- picky
- prudish
- punctilious
- puritanical
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- set
- severe
- square
- stern
- stickling
- straight
- strait-laced
- stringent
- stuffy
- tough
- unpermissive
- unsparing
- uptight
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