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pugnacious

/puhg-ney-shuhs/US // pʌgˈneɪ ʃəs //UK // (pʌɡˈneɪʃəs) //

胆大包天,胆大妄为,胆大的,胆大的人

Related Words

aggressive咄咄逼人,积极进取,侵略性,咄咄逼人的antagonistic对抗性的,对抗性,对抗性强,敌对性argumentative争论性,争论性的,议论性的,议论性bellicose好战,好战的,好战的人,穷兵黩武cantankerous气喘吁吁,气喘吁吁的,脾气暴躁的人,脾气暴躁的choleric胆小的人,胆小的,胆怯的人,胆怯的combative好斗,好斗的,战斗性,好战contentious争议性,有争议的,争议性的,争论defiant强悍的,藐视,挑衅,藐视一切disputatious争议性,争论不休,争议性的,争议hot-tempered脾气暴躁,脾气暴躁的,脾气暴躁的人,脾气火爆irascible暴躁,暴躁的,气急败坏,脾气暴躁irritable烦躁,烦躁不安,烦躁的,易怒militant激进分子,激进的,激进,好战分子petulant娇气,娇气的,娇气的人,娇惯pushing推动,推广,推进,推销pushy咄咄逼人,咄咄逼人的,雄心勃勃,强势的quarrelsome争吵,好争吵,争吵的,好争辩rebellious叛逆的,反叛的,叛逆,悖逆的salty咸的,咸味,咸咸的,咸味的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.belligerent
Synonyms
aggressive咄咄逼人,积极进取,侵略性,咄咄逼人的antagonistic对抗性的,对抗性,对抗性强,敌对性argumentative争论性,争论性的,议论性的,议论性bellicose好战,好战的,好战的人,穷兵黩武cantankerous气喘吁吁,气喘吁吁的,脾气暴躁的人,脾气暴躁的chip on shoulder肩膀上的筹码,肩膀上的芯片,肩膀上的伤痕,肩膀上的晶片choleric胆小的人,胆小的,胆怯的人,胆怯的combative好斗,好斗的,战斗性,好战contentious争议性,有争议的,争议性的,争论defiant强悍的,藐视,挑衅,藐视一切disputatious争议性,争论不休,争议性的,争议have a bone to pick有意见,有事相求,有所不满,有问题hot-tempered脾气暴躁,脾气暴躁的,脾气暴躁的人,脾气火爆irascible暴躁,暴躁的,气急败坏,脾气暴躁irritable烦躁,烦躁不安,烦躁的,易怒itching to fight迫不及待地想战斗,迫不及待地想打架,争强好胜,迫不及待militant激进分子,激进的,激进,好战分子petulant娇气,娇气的,娇气的人,娇惯pushing推动,推广,推进,推销pushy咄咄逼人,咄咄逼人的,雄心勃勃,强势的quarrelsome争吵,好争吵,争吵的,好争辩ready to fight准备战斗,随时准备战斗,准备好战斗,随时可以战斗rebellious叛逆的,反叛的,叛逆,悖逆的salty咸的,咸味,咸咸的,咸味的scrappy潦倒的人,潦倒的,潦草的,潦倒self-assertive自言自语,自信,自言自语的,自信的人truculent气势汹汹,气势汹汹的,气势磅礴,气势汹汹的人warlike好战的,好战,好战的人,好斗

Examples

  • Rumsfeld was more complex and paradoxical than the public caricature of him as a pugnacious, inflexible villain would suggest.

  • It all ended badly last October when Glenn Greenwald, the pugnacious, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, quit the investigative news site he had co-founded six years earlier.

  • To be sure, the pugnacious poet had his moments of assurance.

  • He said that on the whole he got a better reception from Republicans, especially the pugnacious Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

  • Joe Sutter is 93 now, silver-haired and moving a tad more slowly than he would like, but still pugnacious and sharp of tongue.

  • He is a pugnacious writer and speaker himself, well used to picking intellectual fights.

  • And typically, the pugnacious New Jerseyan refuses to back away.

  • An early Zionist leader, prideful, pugnacious, Ussishkin headed the Jewish National Fund for nearly 20 years.

  • Supported by Thurstane's pugnacious presence and hurried up by his vehement orders, they began to fire.

  • He had never, in all his pugnacious and sanguinary life, looked upon anything so fascinating.

  • It was not the headlong, reckless, pugnacious rage of the old Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian berserker.

  • "Get about your own business and leave us alone," advised the pugnacious chap.

  • The Scotch are certainly a most pugnacious people; their whole history proves it.

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