nosed

adjective \ ˈnōzd \

|Updated on: 6 Aug 2018

Definition of nosed

: having a nose especially of a specified kind —usually used in combination

snub-nosed

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Recent Examples of nosed from the Web

LoForte is an example of the type of undervalued hard-nosed player Vanderhook and Fullerton count on.

— ethan bauer, latimes.com, "Fullerton finds itself on the brink of its 27th consecutive NCAA regional trip," 1 June 2018
And the 1978 Superman film drew inspiration from the adult humor of 1930s fast-talking screwball comedies, with Clark Kent / Superman (Christopher Reeve) and hard-nosed reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) exchanging witty quips between super-flights.

— noah berlatsky, The Verge, "The best superhero stories admit that superheroes are ridiculous," 11 July 2018
The guidelines seem designed to protect a player like Gardner, who has forged an 11-year career as a hard-nosed outfielder with few qualms about throwing his body around and is prideful enough to try to insist on playing through injuries.

— New York Times, "A Hard Collision, but No Concussion Check, for Yankees’ Brett Gardner," 27 June 2018
Translation: a hard-nosed practice player at the least and, ideally, someone who would contribute off the bench.

— gary d'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "D'Amato: Bucks get exactly what they were looking for in Donte DiVincenzo," 21 June 2018
Still, despite the differing viewpoints, these knockdowns and retaliatory pitches between two hard-nosed teams was handled perfectly by each team, each manager, and veteran umpire Jim Wolf.

— bob nightengale, USA TODAY, "Old school baseball: Pirates-Diamondbacks beanball handled perfectly," 12 June 2018
Freeman is a hard-nosed velocity runner with great quickness.

— SI.com, "Fantasy Football Preseason Reports: A Scout’s Take on Every Team," 5 July 2018
Beyond the specifics of the legislative rules, however, Republicans simply approached Obama-era policymaking with a new spirit of hard-nosed cynicism.

— matthew yglesias, Vox, "Donald Trump, the resistance, and the limits of normcore politics," 3 July 2018
And the koala is not alone: Sequencing technology is fundamentally changing how conservationists fight to preserve at-risk species, from mountain lions to blunt-nosed leopard lizards.

— matt simon, WIRED, "Can the Koala Genome Save the Species From Deforestation and Chlamydia?," 2 July 2018

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