Crossword clues for no-nonsense
no-nonsense
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
no-nonsense \no`-non"sense\ (n[=o]`n[o^]n"s[e^]ns), adj.
Not tolerating irrelevant or frivolous distractions; businesslike; serious; as, the no-nonsense tones of a stern parent; the chairman adopted a no-nonsense attitude.
Serving the purpose without unnecessary complications; uncomplicated; plain; not fancy.
Hence: Practical and economical.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"not tolerating foolishness, businesslike," 1928," from phrase to stand no nonsense, which is attested from 1821, originally in sporting slang.
Wiktionary
a. Practical, not concerning oneself with anything silly or unimportant.
WordNet
adj. not tolerating irrelevancies; "the no-nonsense tones of a stern parent"
Usage examples of "no-nonsense".
Jackson follows this no-nonsense description with a paragraph detailing the history of the black box.
The bearer of bad news was a colonel in his forties, a no-nonsense type who strode across the deck to greet the captain of the ship, who passed him along to the Carrier Air Group commander.
And despite my no-nonsense bag right out of a black and white big-shouldered gal moviedom, I demurred.
After lunch they all sit matily around the scrubbed, no-nonsense, tables they make the most beautiful thing, a cushion of moss edged with silver cord: in the middle of it is a heart made of chincherinchee flower heads The ring rests in the middle of this heart.
I waited around the front office for a few minutes, watching the kids come in to whine about tardy slips and unexcused absences, then followed a no-nonsense rump into the shrine for a word with the principal.
An ordinary girl, attractive in her no-nonsense way, with whom it had been demonstrated that I had so little in common that I felt a disconnectedness that had something uncanny about it, as if I were deprived all at once of the ability to sympathize, to comprehend, to invent, even to feel anything over and above a generalized confusion, as if I had committed an offence.
Though both were tall and slim, Julia owned the innate grace of the Caesars, whereas Aurelia moved with brisk, no-nonsense economy.
Gryntaro was the epitome of the rough-and-tumble, no-nonsense type of Qanska, the sort who would be instantly and unanimously put in charge if the Counselors and Leaders and Wise ever decided to organize an army and take on the Vuuka in a straight-up battle.
She wore a nursy no-nonsense watch and those shoes with two-inch crepe soles designed to offset fallen arches and varicose veins.
Joram had finished in the East again and returned to his place, setting the thurible back on the altar, it was Gregory who took up the sword to seal the circle, carrying it under the quillons with a no-nonsense expression as he moved briskly to the East.
Hawthorne, in her early thirties and seven years older than Celia, was a strong, no-nonsense person with long, raven-black hair which she pushed back impatiently as Celia explained her objective.
All manner of costume was visible in a blur of styles and hues, from intricately batiked turbans to simple loincloths to no-nonsense sailors’ attire sewn in solid colors and material too tough for anything equipped with less dentition than a shark to bite through.
Senator Vincente of Coahuila, Senator Kaiser of Oregon, Senator Brand of Maine, Senator Petterson of New Jersey, and Minister Stanislaus of Newfoundland, ^ Petterson opened the meeting in her usual no-nonsense, let's-get-on-with-it tones, "The Committee for Maritime Resources, Organic, is now in session.
John wanted Tunnel Rat to include columns on practical aspects of the scene, no-nonsense information that fellow writers could use to help their own careers--articles on copyrighting, publishing and touring, among other subjects.
Generals planned strategic air strikes beneath the no-nonsense glow of alternating current, and it was all out of control, like a kid's soapbox racer going downhill with no brakes: I was following my orders.