PUGNACIOUS
\pʌɡnˈe͡ɪʃəs], \pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs], \p_ʌ_ɡ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_s]\
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tough and callous by virtue of experience
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ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"
By Princeton University
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tough and callous by virtue of experience
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ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Inclined to fight; quarrelsome.
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Pugnaciousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
