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Meanings of bare-knuckled in English

Characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules.

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Usage of bare-knuckled in English
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Bilal is also the bare-knuckled survivor of music industry b.s.
Ebony
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Like its protagonist, the movie keeps its distance from the bare-knuckled world of D.C. politics.
Reuters
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The blood in his skull pounded like bare-knuckled pugilists.
The notorious scoundrel
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Or perhaps a match of bare-knuckled boxing.
The sherlockian
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Back to his roots as Ian Fleming's driven, bare-knuckled, rough-around-the-edges sociopathic killer in Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Reuters
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When he reads his own comments, Uwe Boll becomes enraged and challenges himself to a bare-knuckled MMA match.
Wired
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In a bare-knuckled presidential campaign, such nuances are quickly cast aside, and Romney went after Obama on the issue.
Reuters
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The hearings will become "a little more of a bare-knuckled process than it is right now," he said.
Reuters
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Their entries were carefully inked in a courtly calligraphic hand on precisely lined paper, but their content was bare-knuckled and raw.
The wave: in pursuit of the rogues, freaks and giants of the oce...
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Nursing a cup of tea as he talks to journalists, Tom Hanks says behind the happy uncle image, Disney was a bare-knuckled businessman
The Guardian