[
US
/pəɡˈnæʃɪs/
]
[ UK /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/ ]
[ UK /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- tough and callous by virtue of experience
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ready and able to resort to force or violence
pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance
they were rough and determined fighting men
How To Use pugnacious In A Sentence
- HIS solid frame, love of food and pugnacious character make him one of cricket's most familiar and popular figures. The Sun
- THE white-tailed kite cruising over the coastal grassland at Stratford Point is feeling pugnacious.
- She would bark pugnaciously - a throaty howl almost like a mating cry - whenever she got a hint of their presence, even if they just whispered too loud at the window.
- A catfight breaks out between restless, wilful Miss Braund and her pugnacious chaperone, Mrs Hammond, ending with a slap from the hostess, the hatchet-faced Mrs Rogers.
- The interviewer got nowhere with trying to manipulate or trip up the pugnacious trial lawyer turned politician.
- The pugnacious, charismatic hectoring figure shown in his full glory on television in recent days also remains a prime candidate to host a similarly hard-hitting political talk show.
- To climb the greasy pole you must be competitive and pugnacious. Times, Sunday Times
- Pecksniffian pretentious pugnacious quixotic sardoodledom sputum subpoena vanity sizing w00t Pretentious Pecksniffian Cruft
- What a way to go for the most pugnacious, aggressive Liberal minister I've seen in action.
- There it was: a shiny black, three-ton hulk of metal squatting pugnaciously on the narrow beach road near my parents' home.