feisty
Example Sentences
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“I know a lot of feisty, fun, and intelligent women and I knew when I met her that she was one of them.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
"We'll have to monitor those feisty cumulus clouds and potentially a few showers and breezes as well," Mark Burger, the launch weather officer, said Tuesday.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
More character actor than leading man, he could be relied upon to inject a feisty, fiery machismo and a cantankerous contrariness into the most mainstream Hollywood offering.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
There’s hockey puck, lots of it: The rowdy U.S. women is barreling into the semifinals, and the NHL stars have finally returned to build a feisty U.S. men’s team.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
I poked the crabs with a pencil to see how feisty they were.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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