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pugnacious

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10 lettersPronunciation /pʌɡˈneɪ.ʃəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted acginopsuuStarts with PEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. ready and able to resort to force or violence

Word origin

From the stem of Latin pugnāx + -ous, from pugnō (“to fight”), from pugnus (“fist”). By surface analysis, Latin pugn- + -acious.

Used in a sentence

  • Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling.
  • As he made the demand he spat out a mouthful of blood and teeth and shoved his pugnacious face close to Oofty-Oofty.
  • In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack.

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