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Meanings of bare-knuckled in English

Characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules.

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        Examples for "rough-and-tumble"
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        So much about this young, rough-and-tumble country reminded me of my own.
        The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
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        It also kept him attuned to the rough-and-tumble of the criminal marketplace.
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        Even when these were prohibited the game was of a rough-and-tumble variety.
        The Irish Times
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        The rough-and-tumble aspect of playing with colour is not for shrinking violets.
        Independent.ie
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        But Patsy was a rushing, rough-and-tumble saloon-fighter, while Watson was a boxer.
        The Night-Born
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        It sounds a bit like a bare-knuckle version of Yes Minister.
        Independent.ie
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        In Ireland he had been a bare-knuckle fighter, or so Vincent had heard.
        Heart of oak
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        Lobov brushes aside the suggestion that bare-knuckle boxing is more primitive than MMA.
        Reuters
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        If nothing else, it's bringing bare-knuckle shopping into the digital world.
        Wired
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        Once again then all aboard for another of those bare-knuckle rides.
        The Irish Times
        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