tough-minded
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See also: toughminded
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Adjective[edit]
tough-minded (comparative more tough-minded, superlative most tough-minded)
- Not distracted from actual facts by enticements, intimidation, or sentimentality; steadfast in one's actions, beliefs, commitments, etc.
- 1920 September, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Benediction”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part II, page 197:
- [T]his was the Society of Jesus, founded in Spain five hundred years before by a tough-minded soldier who trained men to hold a breach or a salon, preach a sermon or write a treaty, and do it and not argue …
- 1960 August 29, “Great Britain: Somebody Out There Likes Us”, in Time:
- Britain's Peregrine Worsthorne, 36, is a tough-minded Tory journalist with scant regard for preconceived opinions—his own or anybody else's.
- 2003 March 28, Paul Krugman, “Delusions of Power”, in New York Times, retrieved 5 July 2012:
- They considered themselves tough-minded realists, and regarded doubters as fuzzy-minded whiners.
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- “tough-minded”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.