Examples of hardheaded in a Sentence
He was always hardheaded about getting his way.
We need to take a more hardheaded approach to these problems.
She gave him some hardheaded advice.
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The second interpretation purports to be more hardheaded and sensible, wiser and world-weary after so many years of watching Trump at work.
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Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
While the tech sector may have (initially) had more utopian impulses than the hardheaded geopolitical realism of the state, both could see their mutual projects achieved through the same means.
—Nick Srnicek, Wired News, 14 Jan. 2026
What the White House presented on Friday as a hardheaded, realistic assessment of the geopolitical landscape more closely resembles France’s Maginot Line—a massive fortress built before World War II to stop a German attack that never came while failing to anticipate the one that did.
—Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
In the complicated, thorny, offensive, manipulative, sometimes hilarious, sometimes uncomfortable video interview, which evokes the feeling of an uncle sitting down with his hardheaded nephew, Thug is reeling and full of so much anxiety that his legs are shaking.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2025
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Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
While the tech sector may have (initially) had more utopian impulses than the hardheaded geopolitical realism of the state, both could see their mutual projects achieved through the same means.
—Nick Srnicek, Wired News, 14 Jan. 2026
What the White House presented on Friday as a hardheaded, realistic assessment of the geopolitical landscape more closely resembles France’s Maginot Line—a massive fortress built before World War II to stop a German attack that never came while failing to anticipate the one that did.
—Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
In the complicated, thorny, offensive, manipulative, sometimes hilarious, sometimes uncomfortable video interview, which evokes the feeling of an uncle sitting down with his hardheaded nephew, Thug is reeling and full of so much anxiety that his legs are shaking.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Hardheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hardheaded. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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hardheaded
adjective
hard·head·ed
ˈhärd-ˈhed-əd 
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2
: marked by sound judgment
a hardheaded judgment
hardheadedly
adverb
hardheadedness
noun
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