pugnacity's Usage Examples:

His pugnacity brought him into troubles with his fellows at Annan; but he soon showed an appetite for learning which induced his father to educate him for the ministry.

He lived a very retired life, and saw little or nothing of society; when he did mingle in it, his dogmatism and pugnacity caused him to be generally shunned.

The former are found over a wide range of country, extending into Bolivia and Argentina, and are noted for their impetuous pugnacity.

More than Naevius and Plautus he represented the pure native element in that literature, the mind and character of Latium, the plebeian pugnacity, which was one of the great forces in the Roman state.

Synonyms:

truculency, bellicoseness, disagreeableness, bellicosity, aggressiveness, belligerence, truculence,

Antonyms:

compliancy, obligingness, compliance, unpleasantness, agreeableness,