bare-knuckled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
adj
Synonym of bare-knuckle.
adj
Synonym of bare-knuckle.
Example Sentences
- "Frank Slavin, who fought both bare-knuckled and gloved bouts, was the heavyweight champion of Australia and boxed in the United States, Canada and England."
- "Well, it's hard to knock a tough man cold with bare-knuckled head punches."
- "However, Dean was hardly a nature lover, so his attention immediately went to eight men in the backyard, who were training in bare-knuckled fist fighting—three white men and five colored men."
- "His return – armed with a set peppered with Clash classics such as 'London Calling' and 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais' – had the old bare-knuckled punks from 1977 literally in tears."
- "Recent electoral battles in the city had been closely contested, bare-knuckled affairs, each party routinely accusing the other of cheating."
- "Nevertheless, merger arbitrage is not wholly lacking in bare-knuckled elements."
Inflected Forms
more bare-knuckled (comparative)
most bare-knuckled (superlative)