pugnacious
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- adjective Combative in nature; belligerent. See Synonyms at belligerent.
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- 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. — Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography
- In the fifteen minutes that constituted our entire relationship, I was rude, pugnacious, and uncooperative. — 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. — 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 ... " — First Lensman
- After days and weeks pugnacious, — Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
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- From Latin pugnāx, pugnāc-, from pugnāre, to fight, from pugnus, fist; see peuk- in Indo-European roots.