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  • adjective comparative form of doughty: more doughty

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Examples

  • You could say this ingenious potpourri of deeply flavored and al dente elements did the abalone, which can seem merely chewy and not high on the taste ladder, a major favor, by putting it in doughtier company of the same textural ilk.

    Bay Watch 2008

  • Prince was doughtier than he, sheathed his scymitar and stood till the young man came up to him, when he accosted him courteously and said to him, “O youth, art thou a man or a Jinni?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Braves, albeit the elder was a doughtier horseman than the younger.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Islands of Wak, and never in all my days saw I mortal heartier of heart than he or doughtier of derring-do, save that love hath mastered him to the utmost of mastery. —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • To a doughtier sword-wolf: himself naught he durst it

    The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

  • But they always parted with an increased regard for one another, and each desired no doughtier comrade when it was necessary to voyage for a little past the emotions.

    Howards End 1924

  • But they always parted with an increased regard for one another, and each desired no doughtier comrade when it was necessary to voyage for a little past the emotions.

    Howards End Forster, E. M. 1910

  • He had ceased to rehearse the speech a doughtier Baird would now have been hearing.

    Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • She had told Benjamin Dorn that a doughtier, bonnier, more capable person than Fräulein Schimmelweis was not to be found on this earth, and that the two were as much made for each other as oil and vinegar for a salad.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • But a doughtier champion of European independence was soon to enter the field.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

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