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How to use pugnacity in a sentence

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Its inhabitants are known for their pugnacity, as well as for their tradition of hospitality.
This is perhaps because they give a kind of vicarious satisfaction to the pugnacity inherent in all of us.
You show curiosity and pugnacity to find elegant solutions to complex problems.
His pugnacity in defense of his liberal instincts is obviously genuine.
He believes his character transition has been for the best and maintains that he was unable to channel his pugnacity positively, rendering it a hindrance rather than a help.
Prince Harry clearly has something of that royal pugnacity in the bloodstream.
Over the years, though, she has shown a steely pugnacity, mixed with disarming charm.
Many top Tories distrust and dislike him but they miss him. There are two reasons why this beastly pugnacity is newly valuable.
He knew how to mix faith and pugnacity in a way even Martin Luther King may not have been able to match.
So we answer faster and better to every call for tender and can consider future productions with much more confidence and pugnacity.
Anthony Boissière defends the French colors with pugnacity in the MX1 class, after Boog retirement in race one.
Perpetuating the spirit of Rhum, this category has its place in this race that combines speed and pugnacity.
Their study was conducted with great rigor, they also were able to show pugnacity in a sensitive context.
Our commitment brings energy and pugnacity that allows us to keep one step beyond.
The pugnacity of the Koreans to survive as a nation may result from the Korean culture, syncretism of Buddhism, Confucianism and Shamanism.
He is a not just a grinning creationist, he is also willing to disdain Darwinism with a sinister pugnacity.
In the end, thanks to the pugnacity of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament's rapporteur, Mr Sacconi, the European Union will have the world's most binding legislation on this matter.
We hope that CCG e. V. will continue to thrive and that the solid foundations laid down through the pugnacity of the aforementioned names would serve as a role model for the future generation.
The push-and-pull of their impossible relationship is captured by the director, Maurice Pialat, in images of a frank pugnacity as well as in his crashingly abrupt editing.
A certain amount of non-violent pugnacity, calm forcefulness, resistance to pressure, and firm resolve to see justice done are vital to the establishment of an atmosphere of peace.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was nothing like the pugnacity of the kiddy in these years of Prothero's disaster.
In war-time, pugnacity, partisanship, coerciveness can find full satisfaction in the fight against the enemy.
The 'Mercury' missed his power of organisation, his splendid gift of pugnacity.
Celtic, he thought, from her pugnacity, and her taste in fillets and djibbahs.
An inherent pugnacity, and a whole-hearted belief in and love of their county, which amounts to something more than clannishness.
This bird, besides its noted pugnacity, is an arrant rogue, and invariably takes advantage of the house martin's labour.
Biddy was the very pink of pugnacity, and could throw in a body blow, or plant a facer, with singular energy and science.
The struggling crowd had lashed his pugnacity and ensanguined his temper.
But if stolid, Timmins had his fair share of a certain slow pugnacity.
We must defend ourselves, so the instinct of pugnacity is born.
This, in a youth not seventeen, urged well for the pugnacity of the man.
Fear and pugnacity are too apparent in fish to require special proof.
Well, tenacity or pugnacity conquered, and I worked on until dusk.
And that fact must, and does, daily redirect human pugnacity.
Then Fisher suddenly sprang to his feet and caught up his hat and stick with all his new alertness and even pugnacity.
His tone had taken on that shade of pugnacity which suggested to his sister that some personal grievance drove him to take the line he did.
I don't know how it is, but since my imprisonment I feel a strange and almost irresistible pugnacity.
Her expression lost its pugnacity and became sincerely concerned.
They are generally stronger and larger than the females, and are endowed with the requisite qualities of courage and pugnacity.
With his acrimony and pugnacity, he brought everyone to their knees, making them do whatever he wished.
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