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pugnacious

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Adjective

ready and able to resort to force or violence
- pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville
- they were rough and determined fighting men

tough and callous by virtue of experience

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Synonyms:
rough hard-bitten hard-boiled

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