feistiness

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Recent Examples of feistiness Covino’s facility with his ensemble is to draw out their inherent screen qualities, from Marvin’s ebullience, to Arjona’s energetic feistiness, to Johnson’s unflappable cool. Katie Walsh, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025 Drescher brought greater visibility and idiosyncratic feistiness to SAG-AFTRA, but can that momentum be sustained? Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025 Simeone will have to find ways to replace De Paul’s feistiness in midfield, Lino’s strong wing play, and Correa’s tenacity off the bench. Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feistiness
Noun
  • Although the balloon incident has not been directly linked to Moscow, Lithuania's border closures add to tensions spiked by accusations of Russian incursions into NATO airspace amid Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Because taking league matches to America, Australia, Saudi Arabia or anywhere else would be an act of aggression.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Just nothing, not dictating at the point of attack, no aggressiveness to it at all.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Prostate cancers are graded for aggressiveness in the Gleason grading system, which ranges from 6 to 10, with 10 being the most aggressive.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Here, in two very different settings, its mix of exultation, defiance and acknowledgment of the very real possibility of defeat could not be more apt.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The Barca team also participated — in defiance of their own club hierarchy — by pausing during the first 15 seconds of their match at home to Girona the previous day.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Naroditsky’s untimely death has shined a spotlight on the dark underbelly of the game that fellow pros say brought undue hostility upon the chess star in his final months.
    Corey Williams, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Presidents have wide latitude to deploy the Guard, and protection of federal property is an obvious justification in this season of violent hostility to ICE.
    Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That does not mean his pugnacity has dimmed.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Feistiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feistiness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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