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Meanings of bellicose in English

Having or showing a ready disposition to fight.

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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 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
Usage of bellicose in English
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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
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When one nation publicly turns bellicose the rest must copy her preparations.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 /...
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She then criticized what she characterized as Trump's tendency toward bellicose rhetoric.
Reuters
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She es mine! He laughs again, this time a hearty, bellicose guffaw.
The whore of babylon, a memoir
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They had entered the fray with their bellicose mouths and soft bodies.
Consent to kill: a thriller
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Broadcasts from the North are said to be more directly bellicose.
The Guardian
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The British government went to bed a belligerent, if something less than bellicose.
The guns of august
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Pyongyang's bellicose statements have markedly increased since the sanctions were approved.
Reuters
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Nevertheless, Löfven has little in common with the UK's more bellicose union heavyweights.
The Guardian
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But as the bellicose talk yielded to U.S. and European sanctions, volatility faded.
Reuters
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The bellicose ardour of the Czar had melted away at Austerlitz.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
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In spite of your bellicose appearance, you don't seem the type.
Immortality Inc.
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United Kingdom
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