"pugnacious" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective meaning "having a disposition to fight; quarrelsome". Example sentence: Because he was always eager to debate, Joe had a pugnacious attitude.
The prime minister grasped how damaging it would be to have this pugnacious woman floating around without a portfolio to keep her on-message.
A bit like Seinfeld's Elaine Benes and Sweet Dee in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia before her, Mindy Lahiri is the pugnacious antihero it is compelling, rather than just OK, to like.
Cooper was instead appointed shadow foreign secretary, and given responsibility for equalities, while her husband, the pugnacious Balls, was appointed shadow home secretary.
The Labour politician Roy Mason, who has died aged 91, was a small and dapper but pugnacious man, proud of his mining heritage, whose characteristic pout of the lips before delivering a bon mot could set most latterday National Union of Mineworkers gatherings and any Irish nationalists quivering with rage.
Lower scores, but still above average, were achieved by @bbcpress's equally pugnacious response last week to "Lots of nonsense written about 3-day training scheme for disabled people on weather presenting", including an initial direct rebuke (posted at 2am!) to the Sun, but that could be because the counter-attack was dispersed across different tweets.
The more pugnacious among them have prepared for a showdown by skittering back and forth in the scrub with loaded machineguns.Texas's governor, George Bush, has so far been shrewdly silent.
In his own acceptance speech, Mr Obama did not mention raising rates, but "reducing our deficit (and) reforming our tax code .Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, was more pugnacious, saying: "Voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president's first term".
It may be wrong to say that democracies never go to war with each other, but the chances of peace will have improved quite a bit.Meanwhile, the particularly pugnacious sort of state that grew up in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries has matured into a much milder and more co-operative fellow.
For example, the BSP's pugnacious leader, Mayawati, whose sole policy was to increase those quotas, meanwhile made alliances with high-caste groups partly to ensure that local bigwigs would not prevent her dalit supporters from voting.The resulting administrations have also been riotous, vindictive and hugely corrupt.
In his pugnacious manner, Mr Orbán is perhaps more reminiscent of France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy (who of course has Hungarian roots in Budapest they like to pronounce the name the local way: "Shaar-kozy").
Not only was his speech dominated by support for laissez-faire economics and hostility to the EU two positions the Tories have spent recent years striving to moderate and play down respectively but it was also delivered in the pugnacious style that failed to impress voters when William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, tried it in his previous life as Tory leader.
