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Meanings of mettlesome in English
Synonyms
Examples for "game"
Examples for "game"
1
American Football: London will host an American Football game later this year.
2
They may simply say they, unlike Italy, welcome a good open game.
3
I've recently played an amusing new party game called Which Minister Said?
4
However, the final three minutes of the game were a different story.
5
Europe is a different competition and little errors can change the game.
1
While an underling spirited the cage away he added: 'You enjoy food?'
2
Mean-spirited, I know, but pain takes you past the point of civility.
3
Madam, - So much for opinion polls and a mean-spirited Irish media.
4
However, they cannot take anything for granted against a spirited Russia side.
5
Reports of a hostile workplace have included criticism that DeGeneres is mean-spirited.
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The above kinds enjoy a gritty vegetable soil; perfect drainage is indispensable.
2
Root was far from his best but gutsed out a gritty innings.
3
The nitty-gritty of the American dream doesn't come much grittier than this.
4
This was exactly the kind of gritty response he had hoped for.
5
The historically accurate film Dunkirk is being praised for its gritty reality.
1
She could be sweet and spunky, then become physically destructive without warning.
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Still spunky at age 76, Rosset is porting that vision to the Net.
3
WIRED Audacious concept, spunky lead cop and funny sidekick keep the pot boiling.
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A spunky, headstrong thoroughbred, she must be comfortable with nude scenes... View Article
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I don't think that kid could be coerced; she's too spunky.
1
He constantly berates Dan for his stubbornly adventure-gamey way of tackling obstacles.
2
The moose is one of the most gamey of the finny tribe.
3
She caught a whiff of his odour -strong, gamey, though not unpleasant.
4
Taste gamey meats on a date with a count, then become a countess.
5
Smells real gamey, been sleeping in the snow,' the father muttered.
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Did you notice how gamy he was, little brother; how he played?
2
The gamy flavour of meats is nothing more than incipient decomposition.
3
When the bait begins to give off a gamy scent, the mothers come.
4
His stomach closed up against the gamy beef, but he crammed it in.
5
Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
Usage of mettlesome in English
1
The wave of pain was as the lash to a mettlesome horse.
2
Having fed our mettlesome steed, the next thing was to water him.
3
Billy was standing in the carriage slashing the mettlesome horses with the whip.
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The Carp is far stronger and more mettlesome than the Bream.
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Both were expert horsemen and the ponies under them were mettlesome.
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This charming May air has made us both mettlesome and happy.
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The girl rode a mettlesome little pony, sitting sidewise on a man's saddle.
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The mettlesome showy ones were bred to display their paces for rich men only.
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This was a mettlesome assault, and as successful as it was brief and determined.
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You'd try to ride any horse I could, no matter how mettlesome it was.
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He had Hurt riding over rough terrain on mettlesome horses.
12
Hardwicke was standing with his gloved hand grasping the mettlesome "Garibaldi's" bridle.
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Her coachman had all he could do to control her mettlesome span of Spanish mares.
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But Aminta can smell powder and grow more mettlesome.
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She is mettlesome and fiery, but full of affection.
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Then his mettlesome horses claimed his attention for awhile.
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United Kingdom
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