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Aggressiveness   /əgrˈɛsɪvnəs/   Listen
Aggressiveness

noun
1.
The quality of being bold and enterprising.
2.
A feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack.  Synonym: aggression.
3.
A natural disposition to be hostile.  Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity.






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"Aggressiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... which I have heard in connection with the same correspondent, although I do not vouch for its accuracy, shows that "keeping the lid" on newspaper men had its humorous side. It likewise indicates the initiative and aggressiveness of many American correspondents, who, as a rule, went right ahead in the face of military regulations, in some cases risking their lives, and in almost every case refusing to be "bluffed out," even where the threatened ...
— The Log of a Noncombatant • Horace Green

... miracle of the nineteenth century. Let us rejoice that one such partisan was now at hand to stem the torrent of abuse. As Percival held back the door for his sister to pass out, a stout little ruddy-faced man with trim grey sidewhiskers came quickly up the steps and barred their way with cheery aggressiveness. ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson

... that. But he feels compelled to do something; he makes a show of advancing, in order to keep up appearances; the war department already thinks he has lost too much time and has shown too little aggressiveness. McClellan is right in preferring the James River as a base, for he could there have a river on either flank, and his base would be protected by the fleet; but this theory was overthrown at first by the Merrimac, and now that she is out of the way the clamour of the war department against delay ...
— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson

... herself free, and sent forth scream after scream. A horny hand left a red mark across the fair face. It was the right of the fisherman to beat the woman he loved.... Tessibel Skinner was feeling for the first time the aggressiveness of the male. ...
— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White

... looked like giants as they came in with a swinging swagger, their uniforms blackened with mud and sweat and bloodstains, their faces brilliantly crimsoned and blistered and tanned by the dust and sun. They made a picture of strength and health and aggressiveness. Perhaps the contrast was strongest when the battalion of the Devons that had been on foreign service passed the "reserve" battalion which had come from England. The men of the two battalions had parted five years before in India, and they met again in Ladysmith, ...
— Notes of a War Correspondent • Richard Harding Davis


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