Antonyms for pugnacious
pʌgˈneɪ ʃəspug·na·cious

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1. pugnacious

   Antonyms:
   peaceable, conciliatory, suavity

   Synonyms:
   quarrelsome, bellicose, contentious

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1. hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnaciousadjective

   tough and callous by virtue of experience

   Antonyms:
   nonaggressive, tender, unaggressive

   Synonyms:
   rough, hardened, hard-bitten, case-hardened, hard-boiled

2. pugnacious, roughadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unaggressive, nonaggressive, tender

   Synonyms:
   bumpy, approximative, rough, hard-bitten, jolting, rasping, crude, gravelly, rocky, jolty, fierce, harsh, scratchy, jumpy, boisterous, grating, approximate, raspy, unsmooth, uncut, hard-boiled

How to use pugnacious in a sentence?

1. Richard Gowan:

   A lot of United Nations officials worried that Richard Grenell might return to New York to head [ the Richard Gowan mission to the UN ] at some point and will be delighted that Richard Grenell's bound for Washington instead, richard Grenell is still remembered around United Nations as a pretty pugnacious operator.

2. Stefano Gatti:

   Every time prominent Jews are at the center of media attention in Italy, they get subjected to online anti-Semitic abuse, the anti-Semitic insults come from far-right circles that have a past, and sometimes present, of violence. It's part of their radical rightwing code, this pugnacious attitude.

3. Edward Lazarus:

   Justice Scalia had an irrepressibly pugnacious personality.

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