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  • adjective superlative form of doughty: most doughty.

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Examples

  • “My patient was near death less than an hour ago, Captain,” Ree said, his words carried along on a dangerous growl that might have given the doughtiest Gorn war-caster pause.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “My patient was near death less than an hour ago, Captain,” Ree said, his words carried along on a dangerous growl that might have given the doughtiest Gorn war-caster pause.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “My patient was near death less than an hour ago, Captain,” Ree said, his words carried along on a dangerous growl that might have given the doughtiest Gorn war-caster pause.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • Sorkin's slice of history moves quickly, though an entire book like this might exhaust the doughtiest meeting freak.

    Robert Teitelman: Sorkin On What Happened After Lehman 2009

  • I hope and pray that they never succeed and lift my hat to you, Miss Phillips, as one of their doughtiest opponents.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Now when the Knights and riders who rode with her sire saw his three sons slain, who were the doughtiest of the folk of their day, there fell on their hearts terror of the Princess Miriam, awe of her overpowered them; they bowed their heads earthwards and they made sure of ruin and confusion, disgrace and destruction.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Gharib leave to do thus, till he had taken prisoner two-and-fifty of the doughtiest Captains of the army of Hind.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then King Kafid marched his army into the field and drew them out ordered for battle in fifteen lines of ten thousand horses each, under the command of three hundred captains, mounted on elephants and chosen from amongst the doughtiest of his warriors and his champions.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then he chose out an hundred of the doughtiest riders, and he and Sharrkan and the Minister Dandan set out for the hermitage, and the hundred horsemen led the mules with chests for transporting the treasure. —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Now Miriam was the doughtiest of the folk of her time and the unique pearl of her age and tide; for her father had taught her, whilst she was yet little, on steeds to ride and dive deep during the darkness of the night in the battle tide.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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