toughmindedly

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English

Etymology

From toughminded +‎ -ly.

Adverb

toughmindedly (comparative more toughmindedly, superlative most toughmindedly)

  1. Alternative form of tough-mindedly
    • 2003, Ronald Beiner, Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship: Essays on the Problem of Political community, →ISBN, page 6:
      We need to reflect more toughmindedly than Sandel does (and more toughmindedly than I have done in some of my writings on citizenship) on the utopian character of a civic-republican regime.