doughty
Example Sentences
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Young readers will cheer for the doughty girl, who braves the razored depths to haul the baby dragon to safety in this satisfying, sumptuously illustrated fable translated from the French by Alyson Waters.
A combination of a fast start, a couple of glitchy kicks from Jalibert, some doughty defence and a readiness to go toe-to-toe with Bordeaux for ambition bought them parity.
From BBC
In public he has been a doughty defender of independence, a parliamentary performer not averse to barracking and heckling his political opponents.
From BBC
The campaign also exposed the vacuum in our political press corps, which tried valiantly to prop up the Florida governor as a doughty maverick who shouldn’t be underestimated.
From Los Angeles Times
“They are the doughty, brave North Korean; the venal and cowardly South Korean, the evil American; and the even more evil Japanese.”
From Washington Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
