Thesaurus / pugnacious
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synonyms for pugnacious
- aggressive
- antagonistic
- argumentative
- bellicose
- brawling
- cantankerous
- chip on shoulder
- choleric
- combative
- contentious
- defiant
- disputatious
- have a bone to pick
- hot-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- itching to fight
- militant
- petulant
- pushing
- pushy
- quarrelsome
- ready to fight
- rebellious
- salty
- scrappy
- self-assertive
- truculent
- warlike
See also synonyms for: pugnaciousness / pugnacity
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His tenacity in conducting rigorous experiments and his pugnacious public promotion of his findings established the germ theory of disease and encouraged new methods of hygiene.
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SURPRISE RIDES OF 2022JOE PHILLIPSJANUARY 23, 2022WASHINGTON BLADERumsfeld was more complex and paradoxical than the public caricature of him as a pugnacious, inflexible villain would suggest.
DONALD H. RUMSFELD, INFLUENTIAL BUT CONTROVERSIAL BUSH DEFENSE SECRETARY, DIES AT 88BRADLEY GRAHAMJUNE 30, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt all ended badly last October when Glenn Greenwald, the pugnacious, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, quit the investigative news site he had co-founded six years earlier.
GLENN GREENWALD MAY HAVE QUIT THE INTERCEPT, BUT HE CAN’T QUIT THE FEUDPAUL FARHIMAY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POSTTo be sure, the pugnacious poet had his moments of assurance.
TWO CENTURIES AFTER JOHN KEATS’S DEATH, HIS FAMOUS ODES ARE STILL SPARKING NEW DISCUSSIONSTROY JOLLIMOREFEBRUARY 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTSupported by Thurstane's pugnacious presence and hurried up by his vehement orders, they began to fire.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTHe had never, in all his pugnacious and sanguinary life, looked upon anything so fascinating.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTIt was not the headlong, reckless, pugnacious rage of the old Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian berserker.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST"Get about your own business and leave us alone," advised the pugnacious chap.
FRANK MERRIWELL'S PURSUITBURT L. STANDISHThe Scotch are certainly a most pugnacious people; their whole history proves it.
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