aggress
Example Sentences
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For reasons beyond my understanding, Cross, an aspiring doctor, looks up to Rutkovsky, a flinty old timer with a propensity to aggress when he feels sad or mad or basically anything.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
“We have superior legal title to all the land west of the Missouri River that you and/or big oil seek to trespass and aggress on,” Bear Runner wrote in the letter.
From Slate ● May 3, 2019
“I admired her. I saw her films. I was trying to help her. If Laura is accusing me of trying to aggress her or kill her, she’s crazy.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2016
And the actual aggress element of regular aggression doesn't have to be that aggressive.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2011
Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
