Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Stubborn; willful.
- adjective Realistic; pragmatic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shrewd; intelligent or clearheaded and firm; not easily deceived or humbugged: as, a hard-headed politician.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd; practical and pragmatic.
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- adjective
Stubborn ;wilful . - adjective
Realistic ;pragmatic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
- adjective unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
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Examples
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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.
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ZAKARIA: It's a difficult question because McCain used to be more of a kind of hardheaded, pragmatic Republican, the type of Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft.
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Such decisions were a kind of hardheaded practicality he'd picked up from his father without really noticing he had done so.
Delta Search Shatner, William 1997
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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
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The first 48 hours I was kind of hardheaded about it.
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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
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"He is kind of hardheaded and doesn't want to take charity," Wolfe said.
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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 Thaddeus Russell 2010
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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 PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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If I weren't so damn hardheaded and love bowhunting so much, I would have traded that treestand time for more time fishing.
Wisconsin Senator Demands Firing of State Deer Managers 2009
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