doughty
adjective, dough·ti·er, dough·ti·est.
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Doughty
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Contemporary Examples of doughty
As Doughty explains, no one really knows what the rules are when it comes to death.
I believe an archetype was born in those years, that of the doughty British woman—proud, opinionated, but with a heart of gold.
Doughty, too, was England, in its game against Italy, although unfruitfully so.
That will be a harder claim to make after today: its soccer team is a doughty legion.
Historical Examples of doughty
There was a pen the nibs of which were of ruby, set in gold, made by Doughty.
The Story of the Invention of Steel PensHenry Bore
The doughty atheling to high-seat hastened and Hrothgar greeted.
BeowulfAnonymous
I was grateful to the doughty Mr. Atwood, but just then I should have enjoyed choking him.
The Rise of Roscoe PaineJoseph C. Lincoln
There was a quality to that smile which was not lost upon the doughty officer.
The CoyoteJames Roberts
It was a dismal hour for the proud court of the doughty governor.
Over the Rocky Mountains to AlaskaCharles Warren Stoddard