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confrontational

adjective as in aggressive

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While Wilders took a confrontational approach, she said, Jetten “had a very unifying style.”

The review, commissioned from the consultancy HR Rewired, concluded that darker-skinned Met staff were "labelled confrontational" while lighter-skinned employees might receive quicker empathy and leniency.

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López Obrador, especially, vowed to break with the confrontational approaches of past Mexican administrations, whose military operations he said failed to weaken cartels and only fueled violence.

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Another warned Newby that information about his confrontational behavior would be leaked to the newspapers if he didn’t stop.

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He was a “good guy,” and “not confrontational” at all, she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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