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Pugnacious

Pugnacious | Pugnaciousness

Pugnacious meaning

Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

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Example sentences (20)

Given the city’s pugnacious reputation, the East Coast crowd was strikingly upbeat about the labor situation.

The pugnacious 63-year-old repeatedly denied being linked with the job.

And so there you have it, Biden last Thursday in his pugnacious State of the Union speech provided a badly needed injection of energy and dynamism into his election campaign.

But the pugnacious former climate minister is not going quietly.

Musk, who is known for his pugnacious leadership style at Tesla, Starlink and X, is now bringing that combative approach to the typically arcane practice of fiscal planning.

Yet he soon MAGA-morphed into a pugnacious Trump surrogate in every forum — on Fox News, off the Senate floor, on the campaign stump.

Femi emptied the content of his pugnacious buccal cavity on the journalist.

Harris would not say if as a journalist known for his pugnacious ways, Kruze himself would be viable for adoption with a “forever family,’ however.

Her pushback against the manoeuvre gets grippingly pugnacious.

Pugnacious though he may be, Joshua Hoyt is no boxer.

That certainly fits his pugnacious, hit-back-twice-as-hard instincts, but it might be a bit of a gamble.

But will that be the end of the company’s dealings with the pugnacious Baillieu and his family, which has spent the past six months demonstrating just how far they’ll go to preserve the family name?

He fired off a pugnacious email to retiring Alpine Fire Chief Bill Paskle.

He has nearly universal name recognition in his district, and, until recently, voters broadly embraced his pugnacious personality and positions on bedrock conservative issues like abortion and gun rights.

His rejection of the charges echoed the pugnacious language of his ally, U.S. President Donald Trump.

Scrap·py: determined, argumentative, or pugnacious.

The Russian president, usually reliant on a pugnacious front foot, made only two sharp interventions.

Confronted with the real prospect of being left out, US companies like General Electric have broken ranks with their country’s long-held pugnacious sanctions project and have been making overtures to gain a foothold in the Zimbabwean economy.

Thanks to a sturdy physique and pugnacious nature he would emerge as a leader in white working-class Tennessee politics, an opponent of aristocratic slavemasters who monopolized office-holding.

Williamson might have welcomed the chance to join many other leading current or former players in piling on to the pugnacious Warner.