doughty
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Synonyms
bold, brave, courageous, dauntless, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, gutty, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, manful, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, undauntable, undaunted, valiant, valorous
Antonyms
chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-livered, coward, cowardly, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], nerveless, poltroon, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, spineless, spiritless, timorous, uncourageous, ungallant, unheroic, weakhearted, yellow
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That a teenager could not only appear for such an assessment but do so before the doughty examiner Mistowsky was an astonishing achievement. — Priya Chaturvedi, Quartz India, "The story of a female Indian violinist whose phenomenal career was cut short by fate," 16 July 2019 At nearly a century, the Duke of Edinburgh is the proud, doughty patriarch of a Royal Firm eminently well-prepared for the modern era. — Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, "At 98, Prince Philip Is the Last of the Old-School Royals," 10 June 2019 And yet amid the carnage, the earnest, doughty station wagon has emerged unscathed. — Kyle Stock, The Seattle Times, "Richer Americans are skipping SUVs for station wagons," 7 Jan. 2019 Whether saying Kaddish over the corpse of Roy Cohn or lending doughty support to an eccentric stranger battling AIDS, Brown movingly communicates the moral vision of Tony Kushner’s epic masterwork. — Charles Mcnulty, latimes.com, "Tony nominees: 6 featured performances that stole the spotlight, turning small roles into big memories," 9 June 2018 Far from being cowed by the brutal murder of Jan Kuciak, a journalist at Aktuality, Slovakia’s doughty investigative reporters step up their game. — The Economist, "A struggle between authoritarians and liberals in the heart of Europe," 26 May 2018 Some in the United States see any accommodation of Turkish concerns regarding the Syrian Kurds as a betrayal of a partner that proved doughty in the fight against the Islamic State. — chicagotribune.com, "US alliance with Turkey is worth preserving," 19 Mar. 2018 Since this early work, our knowledge of chimpanzees has continued to expand thanks to an array of doughty field workers. — David Barash, WSJ, "‘The New Chimpanzee’ Review: Mysteries of the Chimpanzees," 9 Mar. 2018 Stage Big Parade Tonight, at Hitler's order, Berlin storm troopers staged a gigantic torchlight parade past the chancellory in honor of the president and their doughty little leader. — sandiegouniontribune.com, "Hitler takes power," 31 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'doughty.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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