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bare-knuckle

ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules
    a rough-and-tumble fight
    rough-and-tumble politics
    undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism

How To Use bare-knuckle In A Sentence

  • In the bare-knuckle street-fights of Australian politics - such as the constitutional crisis in 1975 and last year's Federal election campaign - we have played by the rules.
  • It has more of an international flavor than The Singapore Story, noted for its bare-knuckle account of Separation from Malaysia, and may be more mellow.
  • Sports fans eat this kind of bare-knuckled action with a tablespoon.
  • He can handle himself in a bare-knuckle fight. The Sun
  • It is believed these tensions arose in the wake of a bare-knuckle fight contest the previous weekend.
  • However, repeatedly characterizing McCain's false claims as him likely being "confused" is defensible, and within the bounds of bare-knuckled political brawling. Archive 2008-03-01
  • In 1889 John L Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain in Mississippi after 75 rounds - the last bare-knuckle heavyweight title contest.
  • Ritchie obligingly came up with the idea of casting the US superstar as an Irish bare-knuckle gypsy boxer.
  • On Anoushka's return to London, where she works full-time as a lawyer, she will have a brief period of rest before continuing her training with bare-knuckle fighters and tyre-hauling around London's parks.
  • Mat Gleason is known for being a bare-knuckle art critic. FineArtsViews Interviews Mat Gleason, Art Critic/Founder of Coagula
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