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Pugnacious

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

    "Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling."

Adjective
  1. 1
    ready and able to resort to force or violence wordnet
  2. 2
    tough and callous by virtue of experience wordnet

Etymology

From the stem of Latin pugnāx + -ous, from pugnō (“I fight”), from pugnus (“fist”).

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