Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a plucky manner; with courage or spirit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a plucky manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
plucky manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a plucky manner
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Examples
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The NYT is amazed that the 3 women councillors "pluckily" stuck with it, "bright and alert to the very end."
Whatever It Is, I’m Against It WIIIAI 2010
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One of the reasons why the debate about this year's Hugos has been so ferocious and (at times) ill-tempered is because while there are no pluckily ambitious outsiders to root for (such as Watts 'Blindsight in 2007 or McDonald's Brazyl in 2008), the list is also ignoring breakthrough genre successes such as Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K. Hamilton.
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Often the thrill of reading is to watch irrational people impose their emotional will on other characters, who must pluckily work to wriggle out from underneath it.
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Cameron's college audience in Beijing will know all this stuff just as British kids know about the wickedness of Hitler and the ambitions of Napoleon or Phillip II of Spain – all pluckily thwarted by you know who.
David Cameron should not have worn that poppy in China Michael White 2010
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Bebé himself said pluckily that his signing will soon be seen as justified, promising: "I am going to be a brilliant player for Manchester United."
Bebé: Six steps that took a Lisbon street kid to Manchester United 2010
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Yorkshire's last-wicket pair of Steven Patterson and Moin Ashraf are resisting pluckily for the last wicket with Ashraf taking 20 deliveries to get off the mark.
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Air France in L.A. has a firm and continued hold on worst firearm service, although in recent years British Air has pluckily attempted to give Air Chance a run for their money.
Flying with Guns 2008
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He would have had little chance against them had not the slender lady very pluckily pulled up and returned to his help.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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Even so, the three Americans pluckily visit museums, churches and galleries and sample the camaraderie of table d'hôte,
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He would have had little chance against them had not the slender lady very pluckily pulled up and returned to his help.
The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 4 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005
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