pugnaciously
Americanadverb
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“If they want to have a debate on this issue, let’s do it,” López Obrador said pugnaciously.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Now, 40-odd years later, Alito was pugnaciously demanding to know whether Harvard had deceived his predecessor about the true nature of what it had been doing.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022
Cuddles are not really Chaya’s thing, but if she is in the mood, she will play pugnaciously with a bale of hay as if it is a giant ball.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2021
By then Mr. Farren had earned a reputation as a pugnaciously literate, effusively opinionated writer for International Times, known as IT, a leading counterculture weekly in Britain that he also edited for a time.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013
He always spoke quickly, pugnaciously, as though every conversation was an argument, the speed and force of his words suggesting authority and discouraging dissent.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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