Disposed to fight; quarrelsome; given to fighting: as, a pugnacious fellow; a pugnacious disposition. A furious, pugnacious pope, as Julius II. Barrow, Pope's Supremacy.The mistress of the pugnacious quadruped entered to the rescue. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 33.
The idea that he was truculent or pugnacious, that he went about with a chip on his shoulder, that he loved fighting for the sake of fighting, was, however, a mistake.
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Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography
In the fifteen minutes that constituted our entire relationship, I was rude, pugnacious, and uncooperative.
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I is for Innocent
There is an element of sheer, pugnacious, unchristian human pride that is said to damn, while it saves the best of us at times.
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Guns of the Gods
It is strange ... yes, fantastic ... you are quarrelsome, pugnacious, antisocial, vicious, small-bodied and small-brained; timid, nervous, and highly and senselessly excitable; unbalanced and unsane; as sheerly monstrous mentally as you are physically ... "
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First Lensman
After days and weeks pugnacious,
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Biographical Study of A W Kinglake