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No-nonsense   /noʊ-nˈɑnsɛns/   Listen
adjective
no-nonsense  adj.  
1.
Not tolerating irrelevant or frivolous distractions; businesslike; serious; as, the no-nonsense tones of a stern parent; the chairman adopted a no-nonsense attitude.
2.
Serving the purpose without unnecessary complications; uncomplicated; plain; not fancy.
3.
Hence: Practical and economical.





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"No-nonsense" Quotes from Famous Books



... course, as many styles of dictating letters as there are of writing them; but three stand out. One is the Indignant Confidential; one the Hesitant Tactful; and one the No-Nonsense Efficient. Bitter experience in three orderly London houses only a day or so ago chances to have led to such complete examples of each of these styles that the reader has the felicity of acquiring at the same time a valuable insight into business methods and a glimpse ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, February 14, 1917 • Various
... For my part I find Eliphaz more of a personage than the other two; grander in the volume of his mind, securer in wisdom; as I find Zophar rather noticeably a mean-minded greybeard, and Bildad a man of the stand-no-nonsense kind. But, to tell the truth, I prefer not to search for individuality in these men: I prefer to see them as three figures with eyes of stone almost expressionless. For in truth they are the conventions, all through,—the ...
— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch


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