ADJECTIVE
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characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules
a rough-and-tumble fight
rough-and-tumble politics
undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism
How To Use bare-knuckled In A Sentence
- While JB's letter was heated and bare-knuckled, it landed many accurate punches, while your prolix retort was sadly disappointing.
- That kind of bare-knuckled competition is proving to be a boon to travelers on the World Wide Web.
- The second big problem was that it was getting dark - just like it does every night, whether you're working on your first gig in the bare-knuckled world of tabloid TV journalism or not.
- By doing all of this, the Grotian school is supposed to negotiate a middle way between bare-knuckled "Machiavellianism" and excessively idealistic Hugo Grotius
- What the media see as progressive self-delusion is actually the opposite: a bare-knuckled pragmatism born from the debacle of the 2000 elections.
- It's a bare-knuckled fight to the death for the American manufacturing worker.
- No longer are its streets thronged with bare-knuckled flyweights, the long-term unemployed huddling for warmth around braziers, or urchin children.
- A second tainted election, followed by more bare-knuckled partisan conflict, Mr. Christopher said, would be far more damaging.
- Bush and his allies have been described as partisan or bare-knuckled, but the problem is more fundamental than that.
- That was the common theme in a feat of bare-knuckled rhetoric not often witnessed by the senators, who are accustomed to considerably more reverence for their positions.