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- adjective
superlative form ofplucky : mostplucky .
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Examples
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A GMTV source described the 31-year-old as the "pluckiest" presenter on the programme.
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He is the smallest, the pluckiest, and definitely the ugliest of the bunch, but he has enormous heart, as do you, my dear.
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He is the smallest, the pluckiest, and definitely the ugliest of the bunch, but he has enormous heart, as do you, my dear.
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The Broncos and the NFL's pluckiest phenomenon ran headlong into the august New England Patriots, and fell by the unflattering score of 41-23.
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Nine year old Sooz, who sets out to find a hero to slay the griffin menacing her village, is the bestest, brightest, cutest, pluckiest little girl in the whole wide world.
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“She is the pluckiest girl I ever came across in my life,” said Lord Rufford.
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D. F., with our own Metropolitan police, guardians of our homes, the pluckiest lads and the finest body of men, as physique, in the service of our sovereign.
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Crew passes on without a stagger; East is hurled forward by the shock, and plunges on his shoulder, as if he would bury himself in the ground; but the ball rises straight into the air, and falls behind Crew's back, while the "bravoes" of the School-house attest the pluckiest charge of all that hard-fought day.
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"She was the pluckiest girl I know," he wound up loyally.
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Here one of the pluckiest fights of the campaign took place.
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