Both Uses
pugnacious
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Smith, a man at once pugnacious, profane, and professorial, proposed that the business of mounting continental land offensives was the historic province of the Army, and should remain so.†
Chpt 3. *pugnacious = quick to fight or argue
- The pugnacious Colonel Johnson, wearing his trademark soft cap with the visor flipped up, called for two four-man patrols to reconnoiter routes up the northern face of Suribachi.†
Chpt 11.
Definitions:
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(1)
(pugnacious) quick to fight or argue
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)