Pugnacious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUGNACIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• having a quarrelsome or combative nature
• eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight
• Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.
• tough and callous by virtue of experience
• ready and able to resort to force or violence
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having a quarrelsome or combative nature; truculent

Words related to PUGNACIOUS

pugnaciously20

Words that contain PUGNACIOUS

pugnaciously20 pugnaciousness19 pugnaciousnesse20 pugnaciousnesses21

How to use PUGNACIOUS in a sentence

• The pugnacious instinct requires little encouragement.
• His pugnacious disposition attracted the attention of the Duke, and his pretty looks and fair hair charmed the Duchess.
• The next instant the pugnacious Dan Cassell found himself upon his back, regarding a multitude of constellations.
• The mind is naturally pugnacious, cannot refuse a challenge of strength or skill, sturdily enters the lists and resolves to conquer, or to yield itself vanquished in the forms.
• But the man seemed to love war for its own sake, as pugnacious schoolboys love sham-fights, with a sort of glee in the smell of the smoke of battle.
• He is restless, pugnacious, and irascible, and always seems like one who is out on some expedition.
• We are its pugnacious champions, and the idea of our falling in love with any other is too preposterous even for discussion.
• Yamba presently whispered in my ear that we had better not trouble them any further, as they were evidently inclined to be pugnacious.
• Merely the normal inconsecutiveness of human affairs had become exaggerated and pugnacious.
• Devoy, pugnacious and vengeful, provoked the first serious struggle.
• The maintenance of peace, among the pugnacious chiefs of South Africa, depended mainly upon his personal influence with them.
• This pugnacious little chap wasted no time over preliminaries, and apparently had no desire whatever to examine the new-comer.
• The teacher who never rouses this sort of pugnacious excitement in his pupils falls short of one of his best forms of usefulness.
• She had never been vain or irritable or pugnacious in her life before.
• Robinson was personally pugnacious, her husband harbored far more vicious emotions.
• And the measure which I think would have been beaten by a pugnacious opposition in either House of Congress, got through.
• I do not think they are pugnacious, and yet you never find more on a feeding ground than it will well accommodate for many days, nay weeks, together.
• Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it.
• Among all the Puritans who came to New England there is no more interesting figure than the learned, quick-witted pugnacious Welshman, Roger Williams.
• In Prussia you found things of pugnacious suggestion always, and in the most incongruous connections.
• The populace, not self-restrained and serious, but fickle, barbarous, pugnacious, is wonderfully tickled with all this as with a mock battle.
• Tim was tolerably tractable now that he was having his own way, and was not very strenuous in support of his own pugnacious views.
• Or if honour or victory or courage, in that case the judgement of the ambitious or pugnacious would be the truest? Clearly.
• His great picture did not make much progress, albeit he worked at it throughout long, silent mornings, like the obstinate, pugnacious fellow he was.
• He draws his figure up, for while not a pugnacious man, he knows how to defend himself.
• The sound of a foreign tongue always made him feel pugnacious, and it was ever a question with him how, as a gentleman, to treat a dead language.
• Derikx places a particularly pugnacious fox-terrier under the basket work of his chair the little animal being literally sat upon by the dignitary of the Church.
• When not working, they sit in the roads and dye their skins or have their hair dressed, while the children play around with bows and arrows or other pugnacious kind of toys.

Similar words containing PUGNACIOU without suffix s

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