pluckier; pluckiest
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Santa Juana makes for an appealingly plucky heroine, and Richard Harmon has some very funny moments as one of Stefani’s snarky cousins.
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Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
Denver’s plucky underdogs were on the verge of seizing a 3-1 lead over a 68-win Death Star, until their comparative lack of depth emerged as a decisive factor.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 12 May 2025
The literary mainstream has always been shaped (for both better and worse) by intermediary institutions like university creative-writing programs, plucky little journals, and newspaper book reviews.
—Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
There actually is something at stake for these women, which frees them up for a desperate kind of humor, in the vein of those plucky social climbers in a screwball comedy from an earlier era.
—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 1 May 2025
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Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
Denver’s plucky underdogs were on the verge of seizing a 3-1 lead over a 68-win Death Star, until their comparative lack of depth emerged as a decisive factor.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 12 May 2025
The literary mainstream has always been shaped (for both better and worse) by intermediary institutions like university creative-writing programs, plucky little journals, and newspaper book reviews.
—Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
There actually is something at stake for these women, which frees them up for a desperate kind of humor, in the vein of those plucky social climbers in a screwball comedy from an earlier era.
—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 1 May 2025
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“Plucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plucky. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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