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Meanings of pugnacity in English
Synonyms
Examples for "aggressiveness"
Examples for "aggressiveness"
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Conclusion: Our study revisited the admitted dogma linking VEGFC to tumor aggressiveness.
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Three patients who developed local recurrence manifested increased biologic aggressiveness of disease.
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You've got our voices recording the heart and the aggressiveness of London.
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The percept has an aggressiveness which does not belong to the image.
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So they're constantly calculating and modulating levels of aggressiveness in their diplomacy.
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Bashir's belligerence has been balanced by pragmatism, particularly when under external pressure.
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What his team lacked in quality, they made up for with belligerence.
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There was no let-up in his belligerence at the Balclutha police station.
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The old tradition demands that national loyalties and ancient belligerence should continue.
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Such uni-dimensional thinking sends a frisson of rubicund belligerence down American spines.
Usage of pugnacity in English
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Our greatest inconvenience at night-time was the pugnacity of the animal creation.
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As Ingeborg, lamenting his fierce pugnacity, and yet glorying in it, says:
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He cocked his cap on one side, in token of excited pugnacity.
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Prince Harry clearly has something of that royal pugnacity in the bloodstream.
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It crouched, its back curved and tight, a pose of simian pugnacity.
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The unrest that precedes a national crisis had developed into irritability and pugnacity.
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It diagnosed the fundamental instincts of men, sex-appetite, will-to-achieve, and pugnacity.
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Not a lover's promise, not a challenge, not resignation or pugnacity.
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He dismissed questions about his pugnacity and bombast being part of an act.
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The struggling crowd had lashed his pugnacity and ensanguined his temper.
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He regarded the world with crafty pugnacity from beneath frowning eyebrows.
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We must defend ourselves, so the instinct of pugnacity is born.
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The adrenal cortex makes for pugnacity, temper, animal courage, irritability and anger reactions.
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It was at that time that Belfast's devotion-andalso his pugnacity-secureduniversal respect.
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His sharp wit, pugnacity, self-reliance, had already excited rivalry and envy.
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Flight, pugnacity, repulsion, sex-allare life-preservingor life-destroying ,asthe case may be.
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Pugnacity across language varieties
United Kingdom
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