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tough-minded
[ tuhf-mahyn-did ]
adjective
- characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- strong-willed; vigorous; not easily swayed.
tough-minded
adjective
- practical, unsentimental, stern or intractable
Derived Forms
- ˌtough-ˈmindedness, noun
- ˌtough-ˈmindedly, adverb
Other Words From
- tough-minded·ly adverb
- tough-minded·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of tough-minded1
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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