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How to sign: tough and callous by virtue of experience
Similiar / Same: hard-bitten, hard-boiled
How to sign: ready and able to resort to force or violence
"pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men";
Similiar / Same: rough
