“The film chooses to render our doughty [ˈdaʊti] heroes’ super-costumes as cerulean-blue rollneck sweaters, which is a puzzling choice both aesthetically and practically: knitwear seems literally ill-fitted to derring-do.” — Glen Weldon, NPR, 25 July 2025

doughty
adj [ˈdaʊti]

Doughty is a word with an old-fashioned flair used to describe someone who is brave, strong, and determined.

traceable all the way back to the Old English word dohtig... you can’t spell doughty without the letters in tough (“physically and emotionally strong”).

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