pugnacity
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I am not persuaded by this criticism—the idea that Jaffa’s famous pugnacity arose from his Straussian ideas rather than his personality strikes me as tendentious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
His famous pugnacity became trained more and more on members of his own party, and his own constituents, than on Republicans.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2024
No one loved to use Harry M. Reid’s past as an amateur middleweight as a metaphor for his political pugnacity more than Mr. Reid himself.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2021
In an early demonstration of his political pugnacity, Reid had demanded during the campaign that Laxalt release his family’s financial interests.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
This perpetual warfare, like the squabbles of a roomful of quarrelsome children, seems to be almost wholly and directly due to the uncomplicated operation of the instinct of pugnacity.
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell
Vocabulary lists containing pugnacity
Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 2
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2014 Vocabulary Video Contest (M-Z)
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Vocab Video Contest (2016) - List 5
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