Sample Sentences for
pugnacious
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    I catch only glimpses of him as the forest of grownups sway and shift in front of me, but I can make out the well-oiled, slicked-down, coal-black hair, and the pugnacious face, the wrinkled and baggy suit, the kind the men at the courthouse have on when you go beg the judge to let your daddy out of jail.  (source)
    pugnacious = appearing combative (as though ready to fight or argue)
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    His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious.  (source)
    pugnacious = combative (as though ready to argue or fight)
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    His prosperous-looking belly that used to thrust out so pugnaciously and intimidate folks, sagged like a load suspended from his loins.  (source)
    pugnaciously = in a manner that looked ready for a fight
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    In the light from the dashboard, I see his jaw stiffen, a momentarily pugnacious look.  (source)
    pugnacious = appearing combative (as though ready to fight or argue)
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    They moved their heads pugnaciously and kept their shoulders braced.  (source)
    pugnaciously = as though ready to fight
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    Pete, a tiger-striped tom weighing fifteen pounds, is a well-known character around Garden City, famous for his pugnacity, which was the cause of his current hospitalization; a battle lost to a boxer dog had left him with wounds necessitating both stitches and antibiotics.  (source)
    pugnacity = quickness to fight
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    The latter was a small, alert, dark-eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face.  (source)
    pugnacious = appearing combative (as though ready to fight or argue)
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    He drove fast, pugnaciously, darting into empty spaces, nudging other cars out of their lanes.†  (source)
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    It is ended by my own pugnacity.†  (source)
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    She was a big, pugnacious woman with a wicked sense of humor and a voice like a rusty car muffler.†  (source)
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    'I arst you civil enough, didn't I?' said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously.†  (source)
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    [secretly daunted, but rising from his knees with an air of reckless pugnacity] I ain't afraid of you†  (source)
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    His pugnacious tone indicated that they were not about to laugh at Xenophilius, despite the clear provocation.†  (source)
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