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- adjective
comparative form ofplucky : moreplucky
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Examples
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Palin's pluckier side -- love it or hate it -- is on display in a short clip quoting her own assessment of her experience as a running mate.
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She, like the Norton editors, has replaced the 1880 text with the pluckier originals.
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She, like the Norton editors, has replaced the 1880 text with the pluckier originals.
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She, like the Norton editors, has replaced the 1880 text with the pluckier originals.
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What they agreed on was that expats in Mexico thought of themselves as hardier, pluckier than their compatriots who moved to Florida.
Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006
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What they agreed on was that expats in Mexico thought of themselves as hardier, pluckier than their compatriots who moved to Florida.
Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006
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Arthur thumped along into his own room and went happily to bed, feeling that girls were pluckier that he had thought them, and that even crutch-bearers could accomplish something in the world.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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I rather fancy Plunger had been playing pranks with his bed, but he didn't shout out or take on; so he was pluckier than I was.
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I suppose that a pluckier woman has rarely existed.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone
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The dogs used are of the usual type seen throughout the Philippines, except that only the better and pluckier or luckier ones are chosen for hunting.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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