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Significados de pugnacious em inglês

Tough and callous by virtue of experience.

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Ready and able to resort to force or violence.

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After a rough start to trading this year, market returns have improved.
Reuters
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Each team wanted to end a rough week on a good note.
Reuters
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It's been a rough year for erstwhile electric car company Faraday Future.
Wired
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However, data showed there is a rough road ahead for corporate earnings.
Reuters
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In fact, on a rough day I enjoyed the sea even more.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
Uso de pugnacious em inglês
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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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