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pugnacious
Synonyms and Antonyms of pugnacious
- a movie reviewer who is spirited, even pugnacious, when defending her opinions
antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-tempered
acidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, stroppy [British], surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspish
Synonym Discussion of pugnacious
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- belligerent nations
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- a drunk in a bellicose mood
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- a pugnacious gangster
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- the heat made us all quarrelsome
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- wearied by his contentious disposition
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