feisty
Example Sentences
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Feisty debates hosted by media outlets used to be a fixture in Hong Kong elections, but no such event has been announced this year.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
Feisty and bullheaded, his office walls covered with animal trophies and a 10-foot grizzly pelt, Young was a former riverboat captain willing to do anything to send money home to Alaska.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2022
Feisty and funny, Roman proved she was a born reality TV star before that was even a thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2021
Feisty, I was told, was fundamentally patronising: one of those words, like spirited or special, that in certain circumstances seems euphemistically to undermine its own meaning.
From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019
Feisty women trying to jump class are so 19th century; I’m looking at you, Jane Eyre.
From New York Times • May 23, 2017
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