"tough-minded" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "tough-mindedly"
        },
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          "word": "tough-mindedness"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920 September, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Benediction”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part II, page 197:",
          "text": "[T]his was the Society of Jesus, founded in Spain five hundred years before by a tough-minded soldier who trained men to hold a breach or a salon, preach a sermon or write a treaty, and do it and not argue …",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 August 29, “Great Britain: Somebody Out There Likes Us”, in Time:",
          "text": "Britain's Peregrine Worsthorne, 36, is a tough-minded Tory journalist with scant regard for preconceived opinions—his own or anybody else's.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 March 28, Paul Krugman, “Delusions of Power”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-07-05:",
          "text": "They considered themselves tough-minded realists, and regarded doubters as fuzzy-minded whiners.",
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        }
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        "Not distracted from actual facts by enticements, intimidation, or sentimentality; steadfast in one's actions, beliefs, commitments, etc."
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          "intimidation",
          "intimidation"
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          "sentimentality",
          "sentimentality"
        ],
        [
          "steadfast",
          "steadfast"
        ],
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          "action",
          "action"
        ],
        [
          "belief",
          "belief"
        ],
        [
          "commitment",
          "commitment"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "realistic"
        },
        {
          "word": "unsentimental"
        },
        {
          "word": "unwavering"
        }
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  "word": "tough-minded"
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    {
      "word": "tough-mindedly"
    },
    {
      "word": "tough-mindedness"
    }
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1920 September, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Benediction”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part II, page 197:",
          "text": "[T]his was the Society of Jesus, founded in Spain five hundred years before by a tough-minded soldier who trained men to hold a breach or a salon, preach a sermon or write a treaty, and do it and not argue …",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 August 29, “Great Britain: Somebody Out There Likes Us”, in Time:",
          "text": "Britain's Peregrine Worsthorne, 36, is a tough-minded Tory journalist with scant regard for preconceived opinions—his own or anybody else's.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 March 28, Paul Krugman, “Delusions of Power”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-07-05:",
          "text": "They considered themselves tough-minded realists, and regarded doubters as fuzzy-minded whiners.",
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        "Not distracted from actual facts by enticements, intimidation, or sentimentality; steadfast in one's actions, beliefs, commitments, etc."
      ],
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          "actual",
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        ],
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          "fact",
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        [
          "enticement",
          "enticement"
        ],
        [
          "intimidation",
          "intimidation"
        ],
        [
          "sentimentality",
          "sentimentality"
        ],
        [
          "steadfast",
          "steadfast"
        ],
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          "action",
          "action"
        ],
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          "belief",
          "belief"
        ],
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          "commitment",
          "commitment"
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      "word": "realistic"
    },
    {
      "word": "unsentimental"
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    {
      "word": "unwavering"
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  "word": "tough-minded"
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