bellicose
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Bellicose official rhetoric is mixed with an offer to resume negotiations with the US.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026
Bellicose language has come from security agencies, but also from the staid quarters of the government, including the diplomats in the Foreign Ministry.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2013
And, just below the surface of her current relatively controlled persona, lurks the shadow of the old Bellicose Bella, for whom rage is the staff of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bellicose William Clark, 62, the highest-ranking U.S. judge in Germany, bathes in controversy with the warm contentment most men reserve for their tubs.
From Time Magazine Archive
So when I complimented General Bellicose on his geldings and noted that they went square without boots or weights, and that he used no blinders, it thawed the social ice, and we were as brothers.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Hubbard, Elbert
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