feisty

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Not known as a feisty character, he is not afraid to give as good physically as he gets, having received 4 red cards and 76 yellows averaging 6 yellow cards per league season.

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  • Or, she wonders, is it like feisty -- a word that compliments and condescends in the same breath?
  • Backports have higher version numbers than the packages in feisty, feisty-updates and feisty-security, but all packages in feisty-backports have a priority of 100 (the default priority being 500), so they are never chosen for installation. —  Planet Ubuntu
  • She's young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math -- and blind.
  • In it, Palin went after Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and presented herself as a feisty hockey mom unafraid of the political spotlight despite her small-town roots. —  Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News
  • She is feisty, smart, and appropriately terrified. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
 

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