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  • adjective Characteristic of a protagonist

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Examples

  • Ester asked me if I was going to be protagonistic all night.

    The Adults Alison Espach 2011

  • Ester asked me if I was going to be protagonistic all night.

    The Adults Alison Espach 2011

  • Give me proactive, protagonistic characters any day, people who make a hard choice, people who are risking personal happyness for the greater good.

    A woman’s place is not in the refrigerator at SF Novelists 2009

  • The People have progressively understood that there is a participative and protagonistic democracy in place.

    YES, Mrs Clinton, there is indeed a dictatorship in Venezuela. That's true! 2009

  • Classically in literature, characters with good will are usually the protagonists; however, not all characters who assist the protagonist are required to be simple protagonistic.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

  • I'd put it down as soon as I saw it, because I've had just about as much protagonistic primogeniture as I's can stands.

    HH Com 52 Miss Snark 2006

  • He was by nature reac'tive rather than protagonistic.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • He was by nature reac­tive rather than protagonistic.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • I also vehemently opposed the war in Iraq because the justification was obviously faulty and it would detract from our efforts in Afghanistan. tornado777-2009 August 22, 2010 9: 33 AM PDT protagonistic August 21, 2010 3: 45 PM PDT

    CNET News.com 2010

  • Lerianis6 August 21, 2010 1: 42 PM PDT protagonistic August 21, 2010 3: 44 PM PDT

    CNET News.com 2010

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