bareknuckle
Usage examples of "bareknuckle".
When you can zap somebody with your little finger you never bother to learn how to shoot a rifle, or win a bareknuckle fight.
For the down-in-the-gutter, bareknuckle training that no big firm could provide.
Georgetown canal lock tenders in their nightly pursuit of violent sports, but even several rounds of bareknuckle boxing had failed to blot out his thoughts.
Only his Roman nose was at variance with his other features, a lasting reminder of his years as a bareknuckle boxer.
She was shrewdly arranging the social setting for the best psychological effect, so she and Janet could have a confidential, chiquita-to-chiquita chat, which I believe to be much wimpier than a mano-a-mano, bareknuckled discussion.
The message seemed fairly bareknuckled to me, and I said so, but the Secretary of War is a stern fellow.
Clearly, she hadn't anticipated Honor's bareknuckled attitude, and the thinnest possible edge of true humor crept into Honor's smile as she tasted the other woman's astonishment.
Clearly, she hadn’t anticipated Honor’s bareknuckled attitude, and the thinnest possible edge of true humor crept into Honor’s smile as she tasted the other woman’s astonishment.