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See definition of brawler on Dictionary.com
  • as infighter
  • as inrowdy

synonyms for brawler

  • assailant
  • boxer
  • champion
  • combatant
  • mercenary
  • militant
  • opponent
  • soldier
  • tanker
  • warlord
  • warrior
  • GI
  • aggressor
  • antagonist
  • battler
  • belligerent
  • bruiser
  • bully
  • competitor
  • contender
  • contestant
  • disputant
  • duelist
  • gladiator
  • heavy
  • pugilist
  • rival
  • scrapper
  • slugger
  • wildcat
  • jouster
  • person-at-arms
  • punching bag
  • serviceperson

antonyms for brawler

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    How to use brawler in a sentence

    From it viewers of “60 Minutes” will learn that the polished, disciplined news program they see each Sunday night is — or was — a product of messy backroom brawls involving competing personalities and enormous egos with varying levels of talent.
    EGOS, ULCERS AND MISBEHAVIOR AT ‘60 MINUTES’SUSAN BENKELMANFEBRUARY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POST
    In what felt like minutes, it turned into an all-out brawl involving scores of armed rioters.
    “I DON’T TRUST THE PEOPLE ABOVE ME”: RIOT SQUAD COPS OPEN UP ABOUT DISASTROUS RESPONSE TO CAPITOL INSURRECTIONBY JOAQUIN SAPIEN AND JOSHUA KAPLANFEBRUARY 12, 2021PROPUBLICA
    Amid a Reddit-inspired trading brawl that has roped in Elon Musk, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Cruz, Elizabeth Warren, Janet Yellen, and the Federal Reserve, the stock-trading app at the center of it all is debuting its first SuperBowl ad.
    ROBINHOOD AMPS UP ITS LITTLE GUY IMAGE WITH A $5.5 MILLION SUPERBOWL ADROYA WOLVERSONFEBRUARY 3, 2021QUARTZ
    Every fight felt like a bar brawl, which was fun much of the time, but just didn’t click as a core mechanic.
    ALL THE ‘ASSASSIN’S CREED’ GAMES, RANKEDELISE FAVIS, GENE PARKNOVEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POST
    Happily, however, she was only a common brawler or disturber of the peace, and therefore there was no cab.
    ADVENTURES AND ENTHUSIASMSE. V. LUCAS
    And though in no manner a brawler, a life of enterprise suited me mightily.
    IN SEARCH OF MADEMOISELLEGEORGE GIBBS
    The brawler, whom we know as Cervantes, was expelled from the Cathedral with his companions, and order was restored.
    THE STORY OF SEVILLEWALTER M. GALLICHAN
    Rover uttered a threatening howl, and pawed at the door as though desirous of inserting his teeth into the body of the brawler.
    THE GOLD HUNTER'S ADVENTURESWILLIAM H. THOMES
    The silent house began to disturb the peace of the town more than the most drunken brawler could have done.
    THE GERMAN CLASSICS OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES, VOLUME 11FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN
    There was more of menace in the tone than in the taunt; at all events, with some such phrase as "Out of the way, tavern-brawler!"
    JUDITH SHAKESPEAREWILLIAM BLACK
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