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feisty

/fahy-stee/US // ˈfaɪ sti //UK // (ˈfaɪstɪ) //

好斗,好动,健壮的,健壮

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    feist·i·er, feist·i·est.

    • : full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky: The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
    • : ill-tempered; pugnacious.
    • : troublesome; difficult: feisty legal problems.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.spirited; touchy

Examples

  • Especially if it involves a band of feisty women who are both haunted and haunting.

  • Kennedy emerged from the meeting “slightly shaken,” in the words of one reporter, but with a better understanding of Alabama’s feisty governor.

  • A former librarian who drinks and smokes through a cancer diagnosis, for instance, is also known as a feisty advocate against chemical sweeteners.

  • The email lists are more robust, the tools that came out of Hillary Clinton’s loss and the resulting Resistance movement are formidable and the activists are feisty.

  • Winds will remain extra feisty into the midday or early afternoon, before slowly waning.

  • The feisty airline is the brainchild of entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, a Malaysian of Indian descent who also is a British citizen.

  • The House caucus appears to be far more populist, feisty, and ready to push the debate on economic issues than it has in the past.

  • Sitting at a cozy café in the center of Tel Aviv, Kallai looks nothing like the feisty woman he plays on screen.

  • She has since become an accomplished and feisty human rights lawyer.

  • The feisty feminist in me has often warred with the longtime gamer in me.

  • On an impulse he stepped up to the small man who began a grin of recognition, a grin that transformed his feisty face.

  • I get sort of feisty and want to dav-il her by makin' you look pretty.