Pugnacity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUGNACITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being pugnacious
• readiness to fight
• Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness.
• a natural disposition to be hostile
• the inclination to quarrel or fight readily.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having a quarrelsome or combative nature; truculent

Words related to PUGNACITY

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How to use PUGNACITY in a sentence

• These refined and amiable tastes are not what the common world would attribute to Bright, who is better known for determination and pugnacity.
• Against the pugnacity and courage which urge our rulers to send other people to die for them, the claims of humanity, reason, and religion have no effect.
• This remarkable writer, who, like Paine, figured in the political conflicts of two nations, must have come into the world bristling with pugnacity.
• The consciousness which he had of his own careful methods, added to a natural pugnacity, gave him an intellectual courage of a very high order.
• Pugnacity was aroused, but it might have an evil effect as well as a good, so far as the management had any control.
• Pride and pugnacity have often been considered unworthy passions to appeal to in the young.
• The unrest that precedes a national crisis had developed into irritability and pugnacity.
• You suggest that the Queensberry pugnacity was something that Oscar could not deal with successfully.
• Middleton a match for you in conscientious pugnacity, and you will not waste it upon me.
• The English Gipsy has greatly changed from the Hindoo in becoming courageous, in fact, his pugnacity and pluck are too frequently carried to a fault.
• Bentley had provoked enemies by his intense pugnacity almost as freely as Pope by his sneaking malice.
• The Irish peasant has these qualities which are somewhat peculiar to Ireland, a strange purity and a strange pugnacity.
• There is also in us an instinct of pugnacity, which especially appears when the working of any other instinct is thwarted.
• Pugnacity, declares my uncle, is a form of sentimentalism, and all sentimentalism is despicable.
• The instinct of repulsion brings hatred and dislike and, combined with the instinct of pugnacity, may lead to crimes of violence.
• It is the basis of tenderness and sympathy, and is likewise the foundation of jealousy and often of hatred and pugnacity.
• In fact, Johnson was not severe, but he was pugnacious, and this pugnacity and roughness he displayed most conspicuously in conversation.
• It would be absurd, however, to paint Keats as a man without vitality, without pugnacity, without merriment.
• It is a singular fact, though, that the white squirrel has not even a little pugnacity.
• The ability and pugnacity of the partisans of natural science make them formidable persons to contradict.
• He regarded the world with crafty pugnacity from beneath frowning eyebrows.
• Conscious of my innocence of treason or any other crime against the Government or society, my pugnacity was roused by this summons.
• I felt certain rising abstract ideas of pugnacity, and conceived myself bound to indulge them on the first head and shoulders I should meet.
• The feature of his experiences which most strikes the reader now, is the extraordinary courage and pugnacity of the natives.
• His tone had taken on that shade of pugnacity which suggested to his sister that some personal grievance drove him to take the line he did.
• They separated like two boys who have been found quarreling, and who have both been soundly whipped for their pugnacity.
• Pugnacity, greed, mere excitement, the contagion of a crowd, will fill the streets of almost any capital with a shouting and jubilant mob on the day after a war has been declared.
• Perhaps a diminution of pugnacity and of the means to gratify this instinct would not be a misfortune.
• His sharp wit, pugnacity, self-reliance, had already excited rivalry and envy.
• Under these humiliating circumstances, it is part of the priestly pugnacity of my disposition to inquire again.

Similar words containing PUGNAC without suffix ity

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