(n.) One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chris Matthews, the pugilistic MSNBC host, said: "Today, moderators are expected to be aggressive: they're going to ask a question, they throw it out there, they don't just say a topic.
(2) Nor did he think, probably, that he would then hear his fellow pugilist scream at him: "He glassed me!
(3) The former pugilist only won a technical knockout, but that's probably the way the Senate majority leader likes it.
(4) As pugilistic as Geithner could get with those who criticized his efforts at bailouts and financial reform, at least he was listening.
(5) There was definitely a pugilistic theme in the air yesterday, as Gordon Brown, accompanied by his wife Sarah got a healthy start to his day with a visit to the Innocent smoothie company headquarters near Shepherd's Bush in west London.
(6) The console pugilists are still on their feet in the ring, but one has its eye off the fight – guard down, unsteady.
(7) Appearing without a tie, and offering more pugilistic rhetoric than before, he said: "The Tory motto is not 'God helps people who help themselves', but 'God helps those whom he has already helped'."
(8) Ever since Lebedev – the billionaire owner of the Evening Standard and Independent – floored tycoon Sergei Polonsky, speculation has swirled: where did Lebedev learn his pugilistic skills?
(9) As the pugilists walked to their corners for the closing bell, Adam Booth, Haye's trainer, was surely informing him to move up a level.
(10) Therefore, elevations of NO and stimulation of the NO-MNP may occur due to sudden, local, alterations of blood pressure during pugilistic activities and play a role in the symptoms of pugilistic Alzheimer's disease.
(11) But it certainly feels in the past year to have taken on a more, shall we say, pugilistic tone.
(12) This proposal is based on the association between environmental factors and certain neurodegenerative diseases (eg, methylphenyltetra-hydropyridine and parkinsonism, poliovirus infection and post-poliomyelitis syndrome, chickling pea ingestion and lathyrism, an unidentified environmental factor and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-PD complex of Guam, and trauma and pugilist's encephalopathy) and on the long latent period between exposure to environmental factor and the appearance of symptoms in some of these disorders.
(13) Parallels with pugilistic encephalopathy are discussed.
(14) Leicester may have taken on a less pugilistic outlook since Claudio Ranieri replaced Nigel Pearson but their new signing is a fan of the sport and tells of a friendship that developed between him and the 1980 Olympic light-welterweight gold medallist, Patrizio Oliva.
(15) However, in a defiant statement a few hours later the former paratrooper was back on characteristically provocative and pugilistic form.
(16) The early exchanges augured a long night as two pugilistic power-baseliners went blow for blow.
(17) In a prospective investigation of neurobehavioral functioning in young boxers, 13 pugilists and 13 matched control subjects underwent tests of attention, information-processing rate, memory, and visuomotor coordination and speed.
(18) Such behaviour would contrast sharply with yesterday's pugilistic media posturing (with more than a hint of racism) about that "woman from Brazil" and her "disgrace" of a statement.
(19) Abbott needs to break decisively out of the pugilistic mindset and develop some genuine collegiality.
(20) Tony Gallagher's pugilistic Daily Telegraph , which for all its Conservative leanings seems at its happiest taking on the Tories, opened up a fresh front, examining the expenses claims of Miller and then revealing that her special adviser – and then No 10's spin doctor in chief – had pressured Gallagher in person to drop the Miller story because the timing was unhelpful in the context of Leveson implementation.
Pugilistic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to pugillism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chris Matthews, the pugilistic MSNBC host, said: "Today, moderators are expected to be aggressive: they're going to ask a question, they throw it out there, they don't just say a topic.
(2) Nor did he think, probably, that he would then hear his fellow pugilist scream at him: "He glassed me!
(3) The former pugilist only won a technical knockout, but that's probably the way the Senate majority leader likes it.
(4) As pugilistic as Geithner could get with those who criticized his efforts at bailouts and financial reform, at least he was listening.
(5) There was definitely a pugilistic theme in the air yesterday, as Gordon Brown, accompanied by his wife Sarah got a healthy start to his day with a visit to the Innocent smoothie company headquarters near Shepherd's Bush in west London.
(6) The console pugilists are still on their feet in the ring, but one has its eye off the fight – guard down, unsteady.
(7) Appearing without a tie, and offering more pugilistic rhetoric than before, he said: "The Tory motto is not 'God helps people who help themselves', but 'God helps those whom he has already helped'."
(8) Ever since Lebedev – the billionaire owner of the Evening Standard and Independent – floored tycoon Sergei Polonsky, speculation has swirled: where did Lebedev learn his pugilistic skills?
(9) As the pugilists walked to their corners for the closing bell, Adam Booth, Haye's trainer, was surely informing him to move up a level.
(10) Therefore, elevations of NO and stimulation of the NO-MNP may occur due to sudden, local, alterations of blood pressure during pugilistic activities and play a role in the symptoms of pugilistic Alzheimer's disease.
(11) But it certainly feels in the past year to have taken on a more, shall we say, pugilistic tone.
(12) This proposal is based on the association between environmental factors and certain neurodegenerative diseases (eg, methylphenyltetra-hydropyridine and parkinsonism, poliovirus infection and post-poliomyelitis syndrome, chickling pea ingestion and lathyrism, an unidentified environmental factor and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-PD complex of Guam, and trauma and pugilist's encephalopathy) and on the long latent period between exposure to environmental factor and the appearance of symptoms in some of these disorders.
(13) Parallels with pugilistic encephalopathy are discussed.
(14) Leicester may have taken on a less pugilistic outlook since Claudio Ranieri replaced Nigel Pearson but their new signing is a fan of the sport and tells of a friendship that developed between him and the 1980 Olympic light-welterweight gold medallist, Patrizio Oliva.
(15) However, in a defiant statement a few hours later the former paratrooper was back on characteristically provocative and pugilistic form.
(16) The early exchanges augured a long night as two pugilistic power-baseliners went blow for blow.
(17) In a prospective investigation of neurobehavioral functioning in young boxers, 13 pugilists and 13 matched control subjects underwent tests of attention, information-processing rate, memory, and visuomotor coordination and speed.
(18) Such behaviour would contrast sharply with yesterday's pugilistic media posturing (with more than a hint of racism) about that "woman from Brazil" and her "disgrace" of a statement.
(19) Abbott needs to break decisively out of the pugilistic mindset and develop some genuine collegiality.
(20) Tony Gallagher's pugilistic Daily Telegraph , which for all its Conservative leanings seems at its happiest taking on the Tories, opened up a fresh front, examining the expenses claims of Miller and then revealing that her special adviser – and then No 10's spin doctor in chief – had pressured Gallagher in person to drop the Miller story because the timing was unhelpful in the context of Leveson implementation.