Professional and Tough

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Professional adjective - Of or relating to or suitable as a profession.

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Tough and professional are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tough" instead an adjective "Professional".

Tough adjective - Not easily chewed.

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Professional and tough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Professional" instead an adjective "Tough".

Nearby Words: toughness, toughen, toughening, tougher, toughed

old	old professional	old tough
rough	rough professional	rough tough
real	real professional	real tough
tough	tough professional	tough tough
Other adjectives: arrogant, experienced, local.

Both are tough as nails, with Kirie regularly dispensing justice on perverts with haymakers and suplexes - while Kosame is a professional covert operative .

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Korra of Legend Of Korra is bisexual, not a lesbian, but otherwise fits the trope: she is tough, strong and a former professional athlete.

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Danielle "Dani" Santino, a tough Long Island divorcee who, in order to make ends meet, gets a job as a therapist for a professional football team.

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