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tough-minded
adjective as in realistic
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
They did before and with—guess who—the fearless and tough minded George W. Bush.
To be sure, there are remnants of an Old West mentality of a rugged, tough-minded, if not slow to change attitude.
Walter is sent by his tough-minded grandmother to work in the office of a distinguished U.S. Senator.
The answer has in large part to do with the enduring appeal of her complex, tough-minded view of love, life, and human nature.
Hillary is a realist and very tough-minded in the way she looks at the world.
He differentiated them as the "tough-minded," and the "tender-minded."
You get, in short, a materialistic universe, in which only the tough-minded find themselves congenially at home.
The tender-minded notion of an absolute reality is, according to the radically tough-minded, framed on just this pattern.
The trip had taken its toll from all of us, even tough-minded Phil Benson.
That tough-minded central bureaucracy did not ordinarily bother to obtain proof against those it suspected.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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