hardheaded
adjective
not easily moved or deceived; practical; shrewd.
hardheadedness
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a word derived from
hardheaded.
Example Sentences
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The founding father’s hardheadedness could also sometimes cause trouble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
I don’t mean realism in the colloquial sense, meaning hardheadedness, or political realism, which assumes we’re all selfish jerks.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 19, 2021
But it also is the ultimate example of, I guess, my hardheadedness.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2020
My uptown feats didn’t impress people whom I looked up to in the downtown art scene, where anti-bourgeois hardheadedness and minimalist disdain for the “literary” reigned.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
Payne bent forward, peering into the mystic recesses of the growth, susceptible to its magic thrall in spite of his hardheadedness.
From The Plunderer by Henry Oyen
