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Another word for no-nonsense

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Adjective

  1. Marked by sober sincerity

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    See also:

    work

    heavy

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Another word for no-nonsense

Modifier
  1. See also:

    resolute

    practical

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Sentence Examples

  • She strode to the driver's side of the Jeep, hands on her hips, a no-nonsense look on her startlingly attractive face.

  • Joe was a no-nonsense long-haul truck driver and a do-or-die baseball fan.

  • Deidre's brows furrowed at his no-nonsense tone.

  • She was a no nonsense woman in her thirties, time-worn to a mid-forties look, at best a five-beer take-home from an otherwise empty closing-time bar.

  • Dean asked, a no-nonsense tone to his voice.

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