pugnacious

He said that on the whole he got a better reception from Republicans, especially the pugnacious Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

Joe Sutter is 93 now, silver-haired and moving a tad more slowly than he would like, but still pugnacious and sharp of tongue.

He is a pugnacious writer and speaker himself, well used to picking intellectual fights.

And typically, the pugnacious New Jerseyan refuses to back away.

An early Zionist leader, prideful, pugnacious, Ussishkin headed the Jewish National Fund for nearly 20 years.

Supported by Thurstane's pugnacious presence and hurried up by his vehement orders, they began to fire.

He had never, in all his pugnacious and sanguinary life, looked upon anything so fascinating.

It was not the headlong, reckless, pugnacious rage of the old Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian berserker.

"Get about your own business and leave us alone," advised the pugnacious chap.

The Scotch are certainly a most pugnacious people; their whole history proves it.