Crossword-Solution: PUGNACITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pugnacity | n. | Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PUGNACITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| combativeness | 5 answers |
| belligerency | 9 answers |
| BELLIGERENCE AROUSED BY A REAL OR SUPPOSED WRONG | 10 answers |
| Belligerence | 11 answers |
| Joust | 20 answers |
| Fought | 27 answers |
| bellicosity | 33 answers |
| Tussle | 35 answers |
| Aggression | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PUGNACITY (5)
The baiting of Jews, the hunting of Albigenses and Waldenses, the stoning of Quakers and ducking of Methodists, the murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia, that pugnacity of which we all share the vestiges, and that inborn hatred of the alien and of eccentric and non‐conforming men as aliens, than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators.
When once public opinion had expressed itself upon them in its too extreme forms of sympathy and condemnation, the pugnacity of his mind found support in both, and regret was silenced if not destroyed.
But indeed he had met this ugly trifle, as he met every thwart circumstance of life, with a certain pleasure of pugnacity; and suffered it not to check him, whether in the exercise of his profession or the pursuit of amusement.
Snevellicci had no sooner swallowed another glassful than he smiled upon all present in happy forgetfulness of having exhibited symptoms of pugnacity, and proposed ‘The ladies! Bless their hearts!’ in a most vivacious manner.
They build a temple of arrogance; they speak much in the voice of oracles; their hilarity, if it does not dip in grossness, is usually a form of pugnacity.
Quotes with PUGNACITY (1)
We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our souls. How many human beings go through the world frozen with rage against life! This deeply hidden inner anger may be the product of hurt pride or of real frustration in office, factory, clinic, or home. Whatever may be the cause of our frozen rage (which is the inevitable mother of depression), the great word of hope today is that this rage can be conquered and drained off…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1997).