feisty

Example Sentences

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Virtually unknown a year ago, Platner has barnstormed across Maine, delivering a feisty, anti-establishment message.

From Barron's • May 3, 2026

"We'll have to monitor those feisty cumulus clouds and potentially a few showers and breezes as well," Mark Burger, the launch weather officer, said Tuesday.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

In it, Tilly sings a self-celebratory, pro-AI anthem with the big-eyed feisty longing of an algorithm marked “Disney princess: Big song” while she wanders through increasingly fantastic self-affirming scenarios that scream “Plus ‘Barbie.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

The feisty heroine is Iris Hawkins, who, in the course of a tentative love affair with a nerdy engineer named Geoffrey Hale, discovers the pernicious designs of a secret order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

And what's most disturbing is that Fifi, feisty, lively Fifi, is letting this man tell her what she can and cannot do.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez