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belligerent
adjective as in nasty, argumentative
Example Sentences
General Assembly to deliver a belligerent and lengthy speech when the escalator he and the first lady were riding stopped abruptly, forcing them to walk the rest of the way up.
This fictional scene led to real consequences over the weekend, with many Chinese social media users taking it to be a malicious mischaracterisation of China as belligerent.
But the feeling among many in the Gulf is that Israel is just as belligerent and destabilizing an actor as Iran.
The president’s militarism and increasingly belligerent foreign policy, as symbolized by his War Department, is a betrayal of these voters.
The strike on Doha adds to a growing list of Arab countries Israel has struck in the last month, emphasizing the Israeli government’s more belligerent post-Oct.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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