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A hard-nosed person; one who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment..
Use hard-nose when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hard-nose means A hard-nosed person; one who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment..
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