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pugnacious
Definitions
(Adjective) Eager to start a fight; a troublemaker.Usage: The pugnacious boy always got reprimanded by teachers.
(Adjective) A person who is quarrelsome, and argumentative.
Usage: By evenings end, Mary who is so pugnacious, started a fight with even the meekest in attendance.
(Adjective) eager and ready to fight
(Adjective) constant in enmity, not to be pacified
(Adjective) Tough and callous by virtue of experience
Usage: man is pugnacious when compared to woman
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