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Significados de pugnacious en inglés

Tough and callous by virtue of experience.

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Ready and able to resort to force or violence.

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Examples for "hard-boiled"
Examples for "hard-boiled"
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Of course heat will, as we know from hard-boiled yolks and custards.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
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Cut hard-boiled eggs in half the long way and remove the yolks.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
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Take yolk of one hard-boiled egg and rub smooth in a bowl.
The International Jewish Cook Book / 1600 Recipes According to t...
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Remember the grubs of the greenbottle, fed on hard-boiled white of egg.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
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Break the shells from the hard-boiled eggs, and cover with this mixture.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
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Shearson, which American Express acquired in 1981, was a hard-bitten retail-brokerage business.
The new yorker
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It was a moment to further age the hard-bitten souls in attendance.
The Guardian
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Three of the soldiers came ambling across the road, lean, hard-bitten men.
Knife of dreams
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A month later the gaunt, hard-bitten outfit tied up at the Landing.
The Gun-Brand
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Or a hard-bitten Taliban fighter who finds common cause with a rose?
The way of the world
Uso de pugnacious en inglés
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The famously pugnacious, conservative judge had been a vote against the rule.
Wired
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A large, pugnacious-looking man on the left put in the first comment.
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
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The white-headed sea-eagle is a deadly foe to the pugnacious sea-serpent also.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Their dispositions are very different, the grey being fiercer and more pugnacious.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier / Twelve Years Sporting Re...
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The pair were very pugnacious, attacking any birds coming near their nest.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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The captain squared himself toward Lanyard, his face louring, his jaw pugnacious.
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
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They are very characteristic birds, have strong family traits and pugnacious dispositions.
Wake-Robin
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A short wiry man with a pugnacious face and a cocksure mustache.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
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Of a happy-go-lucky disposition, of a temperament more pugnacious than military, Lieut.
A Set of Six
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Bill Bunton resisted arrest and was pugnacious, of course declaring his innocence.
The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado
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Lancey, although mentally and morally a man of peace, was physically pugnacious.
In the Track of the Troops
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Doctor Isaac Barrow was such a dull, pugnacious, stupid fellow, etc., etc.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 / A Maga...
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Nor any officer more pugnacious on his juniors' account, I assure you!
The Winds of the World
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As Win concluded, Edith's high color lessened and Roger looked less pugnacious.
The Spanish Chest
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He frightened timid people; he made the pugnacious angry and resentful.
Despair's Last Journey
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The grasping home makes the pugnacious disturber of the public peace.
Religious Education in the Family
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