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Pugnacity Synonyms

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Warlike or hostile attitude or nature
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. belligerence
  2. bellicoseness
  3. bellicosity
  4. belligerency
  5. combativeness
  6. contentiousness
  7. aggressiveness
  8. hostility
  9. militance
  10. militancy
  11. pugnaciousness
  12. truculence
  13. truculency
The power or will to fight
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bellicoseness
  2. bellicosity
  3. belligerence
  4. belligerency
  5. combativeness
  6. contentiousness
  7. fight
  8. pugnaciousness
  9. truculence
  10. truculency

Pugnacity Sentence Examples

  • As a statesman, he certainly committed grave faults - through excess of diplomatic subtlety, lack of forethought, and sometimes even through ingenuousness; but it must with justice be admitted that, in spite of his reputation for pugnacity and obstinacy, he never failed, either by temperament or on principle, to exhaust every peaceful expedient in settling questions.

  • His pugnacity brought him into troubles with his fellows at Annan; but he soon showed an appetite for learning which induced his father to educate him for the ministry.

  • The former are found over a wide range of country, extending into Bolivia and Argentina, and are noted for their impetuous pugnacity.

  • He lived a very retired life, and saw little or nothing of society; when he did mingle in it, his dogmatism and pugnacity caused him to be generally shunned.

  • More than Naevius and Plautus he represented the pure native element in that literature, the mind and character of Latium, the plebeian pugnacity, which was one of the great forces in the Roman state.

Words near Pugnacity in the Thesaurus

  • pug
  • pug-nose
  • pug-nosed
  • pugilism
  • pugilist
  • pugilists
  • pugnacious
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • puissance
  • puissant
  • puke
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