| When they began feeding upon the tiny forms of life found in the creek, the Bully soon gained a reputation for pugnaciousness. |
| He is mild-mannered, too, and does not appear to share the ideological pugnaciousness and cultural resentfulness of his putative future colleagues Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. |
| If they fought back, the pugnaciousness was knocked out of them at once. |
| With a flash of pugnaciousness, he said that debate should also close on his healthcare reforms so derided by his political foes. |
| Their pugnaciousness has energised donors and activists. |
| One evening the latter thought fit to twit him with his pugnaciousness. |
