It's been suggested that the plucky -- and it's almost always described as plucky. From Wordnik.com. [World Hum] Reference
And eep -- Talia is many things, but "plucky" has never been one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Writing About Rape, Part II] Reference
A deranged angry woman disrupting a meeting is "plucky" and "stands up for herself". From Wordnik.com. [If "every campaign is... a narrative," what's Hillary Clinton's narrative?] Reference
You have to be pretty creative and energetic -- you have to be quite kind of plucky, to a certain extent. From Wordnik.com. [Toby Young Can't Resist One More Prank at Soho House] Reference
F. whistled, called her "plucky," but thought the whole thing far too risky. From Wordnik.com. [The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service] Reference
Kramer personifies Purdue basketball: overachieving, "plucky," and spectacularly blue collar. From Wordnik.com. [SBNation.com - All Posts] Reference
Australians as 'plucky' and 'spirited' and advising them on how to reform their domestic first-class structure. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"How I begin to hate that word plucky," said Montagu; "it's made the excuse here for everything that's wrong, base, and unmanly. From Wordnik.com. [Eric, or Little by Little] Reference
"plucky," and often displayed great determination, but Grant had pure. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing to the Front] Reference
This young lady, and how smart and plucky she was. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
You are very plucky, if I may be permitted to say so. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
She was plucky, and made no attempt to interfere with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
The judge is plucky, self-made, independent-minded and fair. From Wordnik.com. [The Reeducation of Abu Jandal] Reference
She found in this plucky nature a striking analogy to herself. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Twisted my ankle a bit," said Tom Binns, with a plucky smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
Both have presented public images that are cheerful and plucky. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie McKay's 'Blueberry Pie,' A Tribute to Doris Day] Reference
The two men, who were both fairly young, seemed to be plucky enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
The lyrics are soulful, while the plucky banjo adds a backwoods feel. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Moment] Reference
But Amazon claims its plucky little Kindle is doing pretty well, too. From Wordnik.com. [Read On] Reference
Some, maybe a plucky baby or a pair of pomegranate twins, will live forever. From Wordnik.com. [forestry] Reference
But at dreadful places like this is where the plucky army wife is most needed. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
I read Working Woman magazine and studied the plucky scenes with Lucinda Walsh. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Worick: As My World Turned] Reference
"Look is if I'd been through a threshing machine, do I?" grinned the plucky lad. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
Only Cora's plucky driving, and her emergency stop, had prevented a worse accident. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
But her dewy stare and plucky strut verge dangerously close to Winona Ryder territory. From Wordnik.com. [KNIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD] Reference
Indeed the sister wives work together to raise their plucky children and attend to Kody. From Wordnik.com. [Katy Hall: 'Sister Wives': TLC's Polygamist Family Asks Us To 'Rethink Marriage'] Reference
Tomorrow it would be some bubble boy, or disgraced Senator, or plucky, unlikely hero. From Wordnik.com. [Cellphone Girl (Part II)] Reference
In a second he was shot, through the chest, and dropped from his horse, plucky to the last. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Clinton cannot appear to write off 21 million plucky defenders of democracy and free enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Warnings] Reference
The implication is clear: Taiwan -- the young, plucky democracy -- deserves the votes of the world. From Wordnik.com. [See Chen Run] Reference
Still, Buick's plucky China operation could be Detroit's salvation -- and not for the reasons one might imagine. From Wordnik.com. [Revving America] Reference
Abraham Hirschfeld laughed at the headline in the New York Post, the plucky tabloid he had purchased the night before. From Wordnik.com. ['Scumbag! Maniac! Slug!'] Reference
The article cites the concerns of critics and ripostes with a plucky "So far, at least, none of these prognoses has come true.". From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
You almost have to admire the government's plucky refusal to heed history's warnings about the probable futility of this adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Prohibition Ii: Good Grief] Reference
It was a plucky performance, but analysts wondered whether the two sons could hold together their father's debt-laden media empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Family Takes Command] Reference
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