feisty
full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky: The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
ill-tempered; pugnacious.
troublesome; difficult: feisty legal problems.
Origin of feisty
1Other words from feisty
- feist·i·ly, adverb
- feist·i·ness, noun
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How to use feisty in a sentence
Especially if it involves a band of feisty women who are both haunted and haunting.
Kennedy emerged from the meeting “slightly shaken,” in the words of one reporter, but with a better understanding of Alabama’s feisty governor.
How Robert F. Kennedy Shaped His Brother's Response to Civil Rights | Patricia Sullivan | August 11, 2021 | TimeA former librarian who drinks and smokes through a cancer diagnosis, for instance, is also known as a feisty advocate against chemical sweeteners.
‘Site Fidelity’ Explores Why We Fight for the Places We Love | smurguia | July 16, 2021 | Outside OnlineThe email lists are more robust, the tools that came out of Hillary Clinton’s loss and the resulting Resistance movement are formidable and the activists are feisty.
Winds will remain extra feisty into the midday or early afternoon, before slowly waning.
PM Update: Showers and maybe some thunder tonight, with winds whipping up late | Ian Livingston | March 18, 2021 | Washington Post
The feisty airline is the brainchild of entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, a Malaysian of Indian descent who also is a British citizen.
The Presumed Crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Is Nothing Like MH370 | Lennox Samuels | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe House caucus appears to be far more populist, feisty, and ready to push the debate on economic issues than it has in the past.
Sitting at a cozy café in the center of Tel Aviv, Kallai looks nothing like the feisty woman he plays on screen.
Trans in the Holy Land: ‘Marzipan Flowers,’ Tal Kallai, and the Shattering of Israel’s LGBT Taboos | Itay Hod | November 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe has since become an accomplished and feisty human rights lawyer.
Meet Amal Alamuddin, George Clooney’s Wife | Lizzie Crocker, Chris Allbritton | September 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe feisty feminist in me has often warred with the longtime gamer in me.
The Cake Is a Lie: Sexism Isn’t a Boss Gamer Girls Can Beat | Emily V Gordon | July 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn an impulse he stepped up to the small man who began a grin of recognition, a grin that transformed his feisty face.
Mercenary | Dallas McCord ReynoldsI get sort of feisty and want to dav-il her by makin' you look pretty.
The Power and the Glory | Grace MacGowan Cooke
British Dictionary definitions for feisty
/ (ˈfaɪstɪ) /
lively, resilient, and self-reliant
US and Canadian frisky
US and Canadian irritable
Origin of feisty
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