pugnacious
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Pugnacious and direct in his bid to make Ms. Daniels seem like a crackpot, Mr. Avenatti asked whether she believed in a “haunted” doll that could talk and calls her “Mommy, Mommy.”
From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2022
Pugnacious in robes, rigorous in intellect, the judge liberals feared most cracked jokes and loved opera.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2017
Pugnacious, eloquent Mr Scalia can take much of the credit for that.
From Economist • Feb. 26, 2015
Pugnacious rhetoric is still protected by the First Amendment, especially in matters of public debate.
From Forbes • Aug. 14, 2014
Pugnacious, and even warlike, when aroused, the idea of war in the abstract is abhorrent to them, because it interferes with their leading occupations, and its demands are alien to their habits of thought.
From The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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Of Mice and Men
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