(a.) Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.
Example Sentences:
(1) He even has a soft spot for the Cockney Rejects, pugnacious purveyors of football singalongs.
(2) He caught sight of Marine Le Pen on a TV politics show in 2007, inveighing against the European Union in the pugnacious style she honed as a lawyer, warning the government to “stop taking the people for fools”.
(3) Nel, nicknamed "the pitbull", is diminutive and pugnacious and a sharp contrast to the tall, silver-haired, urbane Roux.
(4) The Guardian has found that Trump’s pugnacious campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski , has more experience in this field than was previously known, having resorted to litigation in his only election as a candidate himself.
(5) It appeared to be designed as a permanent – and pugnacious – installation, with none of the usual ropes and pulleys.
(6) I wouldn’t have gone in.” National security also sparked the standout clash of the night, when Paul, the libertarian who did most in the Senate to end the bulk collection of phone records in the wake of the disclosures from the whistleblower Edward Snowden , collided with Chris Christie, the pugnacious New Jersey governor.
(7) On Friday morning, Rahm Emanuel, the brilliantly pugnacious mayor of Chicago, and former White House chief of staff, told me that, as the grandson of a migrant, he would not assist Trump’s attempts to entrap undocumented children, but instead continue to support them through his community college programme.
(8) The pugnacious Schulberg rejected this and broke with party discipline, publishing What Makes Sammy Run?
(9) McBride, a football-loving and pugnacious former Treasury civil servant drawn into Brown's inner circle, paid yesterday with his career.
(10) "Blowing up the Red Road eyesores is a typically pugnacious Glaswegian way of celebrating the Games.
(11) Getting out of the third round proved as tough as he suspected for Dimitrov, who needed three hours and 28 minutes to subdue the pugnacious crowd favourite Marcos Baghdatis in five competitive sets in the early-afternoon heat.
(12) Montgomerie, who now edits the Times comment section, had suggested that Gove was excessively "pugnacious and confrontational" in his dealings with the teaching profession.
(13) Despite Blanco’s refusal, Ramirez announced he was imposing state command over Cuernavaca’s police, and he suggested dark forces were influencing the pugnacious former athlete, who has never before held public office.
(14) Rumpole of the Bailey, the pugnacious barrister created by John Mortimer, of course constantly resisted promotion to the bench.
(15) He certainly demonstrates a similar steely resolve, pugnaciousness and disdain for consensus politics that was the hallmark of the Iron Lady.
(16) The pugnacious Bannon, a former head of the rightwing Bretibart News who has been dubbed “Trump’s Rasputin”, spoke as if on permanent war footing.
(17) • China's "newly pugnacious" foreign policy is "losing friends worldwide", the US ambassador to Beijing argued in a cable .
(18) Chris Christie , the pugnacious governor of New Jersey who staked his 2016 presidential campaign on a strong showing in the New Hampshire primary, has suspended his candidacy after winning less than 10% of the vote on Tuesday, a campaign staffer confirmed to the Guardian.
(19) Erdoğan said voters had opted for stability, but in characteristically pugnacious form in Istanbul, he also attacked the global media and its criticism of him.
(20) As charming and as pugnacious as ever, he survived what might have been disgrace and was certainly unpopularity as an active, cheerful and still optimistic man.
Repugnant
Definition:
(a.) Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sir Philip Green has interesting tax arrangements but far from being labelled morally repugnant in a Mexico TV studio, he has got a government review to head up," she said.
(2) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
(3) George Galloway and moral repugnance in the same sentence: whoever would have thought it?
(4) He has previously sparked controversy by questioning the existence of "homophobia", suggesting that some people find same-sex relationships "distasteful if not viscerally repugnant" and arguing that there are "different degrees of culpability" in rape cases.
(5) She added: "Repugnant as it was that the aggressor should gain anything from his aggression, this seemed an acceptable price to pay.
(6) While the bathroom law is controversial in itself, many express concern that the loss of the right to sue in state court for transgender discrimination is equally repugnant.
(7) Still the Vatican turns a blind eye to this most repugnant and damaging of all sexual practices, the suffering little children whose priests come unto them.
(8) The party denounced Smith as "repugnant" after a book by the most recent incumbent as MP in Smith's Rochdale seat, Labour's Simon Danczuk, detailed repeated crimes by the late Liberal politician and drew similarities with serial sex offender Jimmy Savile.
(9) Ruling initially accepted by foreign secretary, Robin Cook, but a "feasibility study" ordered into the potential return June 2004 UK government tries to block return of islanders through two orders in council, royal decrees which declared no one had right of abode May 2006 The high court overruled the orders in council, describing their use to expel an entire population as repugnant 2007 Foreign office appeal rejected
(10) A fairly solid insistence that they did not followed from anonymous officials soon enough, but the effect was not what it would have been if a crisp, immediate and unambiguous denial had come straight from the lips of the chancellor, who has called tax avoidance “morally repugnant”.
(11) Cameron's problem is that the changes he has already introduced have been greeted with deep repugnance by many on his own side.
(12) A genuinely tolerant state will often be called to protect opinions which are both wrong and repugnant to the majority.
(13) If you’re going to be leader of the free world, you have to be able to accept criticism, and Mr Trump can’t.” Trump, who as a young man obtained deferments and did not serve in Vietnam , also faced criticism from the families of 17 Americans who died in war, who in an open letter asked him to apologize to the Khans and other families of fallen soldiers for comments they said were “repugnant, and personally offensive”.
(14) "What seems to me repugnant about what happened is that the prosecutors' duty was to seek justice and the truth.
(15) So I think when something is so morally repugnant to so many people, why should tax dollars go to this?” I think a lot of people, even a lot of pro-choice people, are upset by these videos Rand Paul The legislation up for a vote on Monday would bar federal aid to Planned Parenthood and shift the money to other healthcare providers.
(16) "Oddly, [Cameron] did not take the opportunity to condemn as morally repugnant the tax avoidance scheme used by Conservative supporter Gary Barlow, who has given a whole new meaning to the phrase Take That.
(17) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, speaking before the suspect was released, condemned the attack as gruesome, saying it would be repugnant if the attacker turned out to be a person seeking asylum in Germany.
(18) To those like the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, it was proof that "to force comrades, with methods repugnant to human dignity, to accuse themselves of imagi nary betrayals and sign letters in which even the syntax seems to be that of the police, is the negation of everything that made me embrace, from the first day, the cause of the Cuban revolution: its decision to fight for justice without losing respect for individuals".
(19) There is nothing intrinsically repugnant to human rights in sex work if you exclude violence, deceit and the exploitation of children.
(20) But when we find the killer's motive as repugnant as his action, we put our fingers in our ears.