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

But North Korea hasn’t responded, other than with belligerent public rhetoric and launching more than 60 ballistic missiles this year.

From Washington Post

Tapers sometimes became belligerent when people talked around them, admonishing them to keep quiet.

From Los Angeles Times