Example Sentences:

Ramayana: Knowing Lakshmana’s pugnacious nature and seeing his furious expression, all the monkeys and even their king, Sugriva, shrank back.

Mahabharata: Among the Pandavas, Bhima was the most pugnacious, and he found the imposed inactivity of exile especially difficult.

Bhagavad-gita: Given that Arjuna was ready to reconsider fighting even on the battlefield, he was clearly not pugnacious; he was deeply conscious of the heavy cost of war.