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Meanings of battleful in inglês

Having or showing a ready disposition to fight.

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        Examples for "combative"
        Examples for "combative"
        1
        Photo: Supplied The near-daily media briefings on Covid-19 often started out combative.
        Radio NZ
        2
        At a combative press conference, Blatter said he was unafraid of arrest.
        The Guardian
        3
        His government could also be more combative with U.S. President Donald Trump.
        Reuters
        4
        That wasn't to say he was slow-witted or combative; he was neither.
        Jarka Ruus
        5
        His charmingly combative relationship also lightens the mood in really murdery situations.
        Wired
        1
        The bellicose, isolated North threatened the South with nuclear annihilation this year.
        Reuters
        2
        The bellicose attitude of Parliament had given much alarm to the Dutch.
        Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
        3
        As you'd expect, the language was bellicose and the insults were fierce.
        The South African
        4
        So Polk was elected, which apparently meant war; his words were bellicose.
        A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge
        5
        Madame Panache, bellicose as a Penthesilea, picked it up in a minute.
        Villette
        Usage of battleful in inglês
        1
        The interference and intolerable discussion brought the three of them forward, battleful and fierce.
        Men, Women, and Boats
        2
        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