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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Full of mettle; spirited and plucky. synonym: brave.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of mettle or spirit; courageous; fiery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery.

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  • adjective Of great mettle; courageous.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective willing to face danger
  • adjective having a proud and unbroken spirit

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Examples

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  • Media figures seemingly unmoored from the moderating influence of superego, revealing cheerily oblivious chauvinism (Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann) and impressively mettlesome candor about gender bias (Couric, Campbell Brown).

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  • The great Tudor queen had known how to deal with mettlesome men

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