If they fought back, the pugnaciousness was knocked out of them at once.
"Police Your Planet"
Lester del Rey
There was about him at thirty-four, an aristocratic pugnaciousness.
"Gargoyles"
Ben Hecht
Birds, eyes of; imperfect singers among; human significance of; songs of English; relative pugnaciousness of English and American; species common to Europe and America; small and large editions of various species of; their ingenuity in the concealment of their nests.
"Locusts and Wild Honey"
John Burroughs