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Meanings of pugnacity in English
Usage of pugnacity in English
1
Our greatest inconvenience at night-time was the pugnacity of the animal creation.
2
As Ingeborg, lamenting his fierce pugnacity, and yet glorying in it, says:
3
He cocked his cap on one side, in token of excited pugnacity.
4
Prince Harry clearly has something of that royal pugnacity in the bloodstream.
5
It crouched, its back curved and tight, a pose of simian pugnacity.
6
The unrest that precedes a national crisis had developed into irritability and pugnacity.
7
It diagnosed the fundamental instincts of men, sex-appetite, will-to-achieve, and pugnacity.
8
Not a lover's promise, not a challenge, not resignation or pugnacity.
9
He dismissed questions about his pugnacity and bombast being part of an act.
10
The struggling crowd had lashed his pugnacity and ensanguined his temper.
11
He regarded the world with crafty pugnacity from beneath frowning eyebrows.
12
We must defend ourselves, so the instinct of pugnacity is born.
13
The adrenal cortex makes for pugnacity, temper, animal courage, irritability and anger reactions.
14
It was at that time that Belfast's devotion-andalso his pugnacity-secureduniversal respect.
15
His sharp wit, pugnacity, self-reliance, had already excited rivalry and envy.
16
Flight, pugnacity, repulsion, sex-allare life-preservingor life-destroying ,asthe case may be.
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