pugnacious

pugnacious

1. riidanhaluinen, epäsopuisa; hyvin kärjistävä

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Synonyymisanakirja

pugnacious

aktiivinen, yritteliäs, taistelunhaluinen, kova, ankara, karski, kovapintainen.

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Englannin sanakirja

pugnacious (englanti > suomi)

1. taistelunhaluinen

pugnacious englanniksi

1. Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

2. 1858, (w), Dr Thorne, ch. 3:

Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling.

3. 1904, (w), The Sea Wolf, ch. 15:

As he made the demand he spat out a mouthful of blood and teeth and shoved his pugnacious face close to Oofty-Oofty.

4. 2003, (w), Hornet Flight, ISBN 9780451210746, http://books.google.ca/books?id=cveoqrRNew0C&dq=pugnacious+subject%3A%22fiction%22&q=pugnaciousv=snippet&q=pugnacious&f=false pp. 249-250:

In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack.

5. (quote-journal) (Sport)|date=21 October 2014|passage=In the 575 days since w:Oscar Pistorius|Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend (w), there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.

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