Sample Sentences for
pugnacious
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    So pugnacious, you uglies.  (source)
    pugnacious = quick to fight or argue
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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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    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)
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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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    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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    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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    Adams-a small, Pugnacious Texan who'd gotten rich selling bonds during the boomIng 1980s-is an experienced airplane pilot who'd spent many hours gazing down on the tops of clouds; later he told me that he recognized these innocent-looking puffs of water vapor to be the crowns of robust thunderheads immediately after reaching the top.†  (source)
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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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    It is ended by my own pugnacity.†  (source)
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    A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honour with him, to destroy them whenever encountered.†  (source)
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    He drove fast, pugnaciously, darting into empty spaces, nudging other cars out of their lanes.†  (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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    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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