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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-knuckled In A Sentence
- How else to explain the ‘Mission Accomplished’ photo-op or the bare-knuckled 2002 Congressional campaign?
- In campaign 2004, Bush again demonstrated the Bush family's bare-knuckled approach to politics.
- A former participant in bare-knuckled White House skulduggery, John Dean, authored a chilling new article for the FindLaw publication.
- Gramm also learned the rules of engagement in bare-knuckled Texas politics.
- How taxes are spent generally depends on the kind of bare-knuckled political struggle that makes Washington politics so ugly today.
- Gloves revolutionized the bare-knuckled sport of boxing.
- Sports fans eat this kind of bare-knuckled action with a tablespoon.
- 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
- Favreau plays Bobby, a construction worker by day who boxes by night - sometimes gloved in the ring, sometimes bare-knuckled as bouncer for his stripper girlfriend, Jessica.
- Mr. Arkin said he was impressed at the time by Mr. Pope's "artfulness"; he said he wasn't concerned Mr. Pope would be tainted by the bare-knuckled tactics Mr. Spitzer and his staff used in their battles on Wall Street and in Albany. Ex-Spitzer Aide Pope to Join Law Firm
