belligerent

Example Sentences

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A long, belligerent occupation of Iraq looked like a morass and they had no UN authorisation to topple the regime.

From BBC

And when she was 19, she encountered a belligerent Harvey Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival.

From Los Angeles Times

And that sneering-smiling face looking at me from that small black-and-white TV screen seemed completely recognizable — like the face of every belligerent 1950s dad I then knew.

From Salon

He hasn't toned down his fascist rants for the end of democracy but has instead grown even more belligerent.

From Salon

The stepped-up military training is a response to increasingly belligerent language from China and the lessons learned watching the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

From Washington Times