pugilistic

How To Use pugilistic In A Sentence

• A favorite uncle provided pointers on pugilistic defenses against bullies - namely her father, who was the first regular bully in her life.
• Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen. Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
• Of course, I also think that Britain is a nation of inarticulate, pugilistic slobs.
• Political infighting rarely comes to real fisticuffs, but the Scottish Tories at their Dundee conference this weekend were clearly being inspired by pugilistic events going on at Hampden.
• If Harold Bloom is correct – and he's been quite sure of himself for almost 40 years – the placid scene of influence is in reality a brawl, with writers engaged in pugilistic agon against their aesthetic progenitors. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
• Finding no solace at home, he is taunted, bullied and beaten by a pugilistic stepfather and eventually sent by his sympathetic, but passive, mother to a private boarding school to study his sixth form.
• They are sometimes pugilistic, invariably dominant, and often greedy for power.
• Mr. Reid has brought his pugilistic sensibility to his career ... link Actually, knowing a little bit about this guy, the word wiener should be in there somewhere. Archive 2006-11-01
• He's depicted as a mad, pugilistic photographer with misogynistic tendencies.
• The Reform Party national committee will vote on whether to oust the pugilistic arch-conservative who is seeking that party's candidacy.