- a variation of hardheaded.
hard-headed
Britishadjective
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tough, realistic, or shrewd; not moved by sentiment
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stubborn; obstinate
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Hard-headed governments regularly miscalculate the risks of their most provocative acts.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023
From Kitty Wells, who proved women could sell records in the 1950s, to the footage of Wanda Jackson out-Elvising Presley on Hard-headed Woman, to Shania Twain’s establishment-shocking outfits.
From The Guardian • May 11, 2018
Hard-headed cooperation and joint decision making may be the only answer.
From Reuters • May 11, 2016
Hard-headed Nazis scarcely expected Britain and France to accept peace offers, hoped rather to maneuver into a position where they would seem, both in German and in neutral eyes, guilty of prolonging war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hard-headed rogues! engines, mere wooden engines Pushed on to do your work.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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