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Meanings of battleful in English

Having or showing a ready disposition to fight.

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Examples for "combative"
Examples for "combative"
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Photo: Supplied The near-daily media briefings on Covid-19 often started out combative.
Radio NZ
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At a combative press conference, Blatter said he was unafraid of arrest.
The Guardian
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His government could also be more combative with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Reuters
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That wasn't to say he was slow-witted or combative; he was neither.
Jarka Ruus
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His charmingly combative relationship also lightens the mood in really murdery situations.
Wired
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The bellicose, isolated North threatened the South with nuclear annihilation this year.
Reuters
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The bellicose attitude of Parliament had given much alarm to the Dutch.
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
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As you'd expect, the language was bellicose and the insults were fierce.
The South African
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So Polk was elected, which apparently meant war; his words were bellicose.
A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge
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Madame Panache, bellicose as a Penthesilea, picked it up in a minute.
Villette
Usage of battleful in English
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The interference and intolerable discussion brought the three of them forward, battleful and fierce.
Men, Women, and Boats
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This part of the world led a strange, battleful existence.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
Frequent collocations
Battleful through the time