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51Cagney, James — born July 17, 1899, New York, N.Y., U.S. died March 30, 1986, Stanfordville, N.Y. U.S. actor. He toured in vaudeville as a song and dance man before starring in the successful Broadway musical Penny Arcade (1929). He played the first in a series… …
52pugnaciousness — noun The act or quality of being pugnacious. Syn: aggressiveness, combativeness, pugnacity See Also: pugnacious, pugnaciously …
53Chukar Partridge — This article is about a bird. For the target drone, see BQM 74 Chukar. Chukar Partridge Conservation status …
54hostile — hos·tile adj 1: having an intimidating, antagonistic, or offensive nature a hostile work environment 2 a: of or relating to an opposing party in a legal action a hostile claim b: adverse to the interests of a party to a legal action if the… …
55argumentative — I adjective belligerent, characterized by argument, combative, contentious, dialectical, discordant, disputatious, dissentient, eristic, eristical, factious, given to controversy, litigious, logomachic, logomachical, petulant, pilpulistic,… …
56contentious — I adjective aggressive, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, captious, caviling, combative, competitive, contrary, contumacious, cross, discordant, disputatious, dissentious, factious, inimical, irascible, litigious, militant,… …
57disputatious — I adjective argumentative, bickering, cantankerous, captious, competitive, contentious, contrary, controversial, debatable, dialectic, discordant, discrepant, disputable, disputative, dissenting, dissentious, divided, fractious, hostile,… …
58factious — I adjective argumentative, at loggerheads, at odds, bellicose, cantankerous, combative, contentious, controversial, contumacious, disagreeing, discordant, disputatious, dissenting, dissident, divergent, divided, divisive, hostile, implacable,… …
59argumentative — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. contentious (See contention). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. disputatious, pugnacious, contentious, factious; see quarrelsome 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. quarrelsome, combative, cranky,… …
60hostile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. antagonistic, opposed, warlike, unfriendly, belligerent. See opposition, hate. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. antagonistic, hateful, opposed; see unfriendly 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a.… …
