(superl.) Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) Behind the sedately revolving capsules of the London Eye, plucky local resident George Turner has been holding another gargantuan development machine to account in a David-and-Goliath planning battle that reached the High Court.
(3) Whereas England was in retreat, Spain was widely admired as a nation of plucky fighters who had just conquered the Muslim kingdom of Granada.
(4) Despite its environmental projects and its philanthropic arm, the perception of Google is slowly morphing from plucky David to sinister Goliath.
(5) "The BBC are the Germans of this tournament, slick and reliable, and ITV are the plucky Costa Ricans who gave us some great moments even if they don't get to lift the trophy," said Ben Preston, editor of Radio Times.
(6) Misguided attempts by well-wishers to literally or metaphorically pat her on the back and praise her "pluckiness" are given short shrift.
(7) Indeed, read the “illustrative” examples the DWP provides in the consultation document – a hypothetical 58-year-old woman with osteoarthritis who “uses the sink for support when getting off the toilet, dresses sitting down and wears slip-on shoes for ease” – and it is easy to get the impression that what disabled people need is just a plucky attitude rather than social security.
(8) I'm tempted as I think Liverpool might bottle it against Newcastle, Chelsea should see off an awful Cardiff team and even though plucky little City will probably get a drubbing against Big Sam's claret and blue army they'll still finish first.
(9) It’s an intentionally ridiculous solution to a ridiculous problem.” Another plucky Dutch designer thinks he can turn the pollution into a lucrative commodity.
(10) The country they love no longer exists, except in Ealing comedies – my favourite one of which is Passport to Pimlico (1949), in which plucky Londoners paradoxically demonstrate their Britishness by seceding from the British state.
(11) As if to reinforce the image of "plucky Georgia" fighting against the odds, there have been TV images of the Georgian president, wearing a flak jacket, bundled away by his security guards during a visit to Gori as Russian aircraft buzzed overhead.
(12) We hear it today at its coarsest when English football fans sing about “ Ten German bombers ” shot down by plucky British fighters, and then chant, “ Fuck off Europe, we’re all voting out .” Not that myth-making is uniquely British.
(13) MC PREDICTION: Spain, Croatia, Turkey, Czech Republic GROUP E REP IRELAND Almost a stereotypically plucky team hiding major weaknesses, particularly in goal, but a victory over Germany and a two-leg win against Bosnia shows Martin O’Neill’s side are capable of shocking better sides.
(14) May talk about Liverpool, too 9.15am Below the line, Chaval asks: "Sean, I'm of a mind to back the plucky Danish resistance to hang on for a draw against a languid Dutch side today, at odds not too shy of 3-1.
(15) Jim Murphy earns respect for his plucky fight to defend a third of seats that might be held, but Labour’s Scots identity crisis runs deep.
(16) But she was a real optimist with a plucky attitude.
(17) And rather than being the product of a dynamic free market and individual plucky entrepreneurs, their technological success owes everything to the public sector.
(18) But for a thrusting young company eager to blow up a traditional market but without anything much in the way of an advertising budget, it seems no controversy – courted or not – that allows you to play the plucky but oppressed newcomer, eager only to get on and do your thing, will do you much harm.
(19) Record heights But Setanta, named after a plucky Celtic warrior, leapt into the big league when European competition authorities forced the Premier League to open up the way it sells its rights.
(20) My own first encounter with Norfolk in literature came in the form of the heroic and crime-solving adventures of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club , a plucky little gang of boys and girls who live around Horning on the Norfolk Broads, in the Swallows and Amazons series of novels, a world as far from my own upbringing as was imaginable.
Valiant
Definition:
(a.) Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer.
(a.) Intrepid in danger; courageous; brave.
(a.) Performed with valor or bravery; heroic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thatcher tried valiantly to persuade Reagan to exert pressure on the Israelis as a means to breaking the deadlock in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but she was unsuccessful.
(2) While Miliband was valiantly attempting to own the future, he lost the core argument about the past.
(3) They battled valiantly to preserve it departed defeated.
(4) It was a fairly valiant attempt from Manchester United , but as their players grew leggy from chasing shadows, they dropped deep and let Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery wreak their unique brand of havoc.
(5) In a lifetime in public life, I've never seen the same sort of storm of background briefing, personal sniping and media frenzy getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job trying to cope with unprecedented natural forces.
(6) Fidelity led a group of venture capital investors in the deal, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Firstmark Capital, Valiant Capital Management and Andreessen Horowitz.
(7) 1 along with controls of Tytin, Valiant and Valiant-Ph.D.
(8) For it was doubly stolen, not just from Disraeli but from the valiant but defeated One Nation Tories such as Sir Ian Gilmour and Jim Prior, repelled by Margaret Thatcher's "no such thing as society".
(9) This is a proper battle and Celtic will be confident they will prevail ... but Karagandy are valiant defenders and, what's more, know they can cause chaos at the other end through set-pieces and high balls.
(10) Nina Funnell’s terrifying physical assault detailed in Unbreakable is something her mind endures out-of-time, “valiantly trying to protect me from the trauma of what was occurring”.
(11) There were valiant sandbagging efforts from Environment Agency , residents and scores of volunteers.
(12) Valiant Republic of Ireland find late recipe to beat Italy at their own game | Paul Wilson Read more Everybody knows what happened when Ireland last played France on French soil.
(13) Statistically, Lojic N restorations showed significantly more surface tarnish, but less marginal fracture than did Valiant-PhD restorations, and the tarnishing did not appear to be related to the effects of corrosion.
(14) 37 min: Brazil have penned Korea back for the last couple of minutes but the defending continues to be valiant and there is simply no way through.
(15) Critchlow puts in a valiant effort during a visit to a community initiative with Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, who dismisses as "hogwash" the idea that the Tories have given up.
(16) This approach may be characterised as either valiantly persistent or foolishly naive.
(17) Fiat made a valiant attempt to export cars to China, but the excursion stalled once Beijing's newly rich spotted the showrooms for Audi, BMW and Mercedes.
(18) The recent news from Britain, where thousands of people mourned the loss of one whale that rescuers tried valiantly but unsuccessfully to save in the Thames, was surreal to us.
(19) David Cameron has laboured valiantly to deliver that reformed EU, but it was never in his gift.
(20) Nobody can lay out a terribly elegant policy stall in that time, although the Liberal Democrats are valiantly talking up the way they took poorer people out of tax.