as in aggressive
feeling or displaying eagerness to fight
a feisty hockey player who has spent more than his share of time in the penalty box
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Recent Examples of feisty
Margarita struggles both with asserting herself in a brutal industry and with stepping out of the shadow of her feisty family, but the comedy is all in how Popov puts those two sides together.
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Stephen Saito, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Floor-grazing tassels that adorned handbags and became leg holes adds feisty allure to the otherwise sharp silhouettes.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
Miller had a spark in his eyes, an outgoing and feisty personality, and a warm and loving nature.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
This is a feisty team that never gives up in a game, giving them some hope for the postseason.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
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Stephen Saito, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Floor-grazing tassels that adorned handbags and became leg holes adds feisty allure to the otherwise sharp silhouettes.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
Miller had a spark in his eyes, an outgoing and feisty personality, and a warm and loving nature.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
This is a feisty team that never gives up in a game, giving them some hope for the postseason.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feisty
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More likely than an all-out boycott, say attorneys, is a new era in which taxpayers and their accountants push the envelope with aggressive tax-planning techniques that may escape the review of an understaffed agency.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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The prison has become a symbol of Bukele's aggressive policies that have targeted gang violence.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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The group wrote to Bondi to argue that the influencer should be investigated over whether she has been paid to spread propaganda for Hamas, the Palestinian militant group in Gaza, it was first reported by the New York Post.—
Lauren Irwin,
The Hill,
8 Apr. 2025
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And in Lebanon, a series of Israeli attacks on the country have decapitated the militant group Hezbollah.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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Home to one of the world’s largest refugee populations – most of them from Afghanistan – Pakistan has not always welcomed the foreigners, subjecting them to hostile living conditions and threatening deportation over the years.—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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Andreas typically waits until there have been three instances of potential hostile communication before asking her friend or colleague if everything is OK.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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Policies around taxes, the federal budget and migration were widely seen as contentious points among the parties.—
Sophie Kiderlin,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
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However, all three of these studies come from a closely affiliated group of researchers, are based on the same dataset tracking maternal health, and use contentious measures of both IQ and fluoride exposure.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Feisty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feisty. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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