combatively
Example Sentences
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They performed combatively in the Scottish Cup final last season, but lost.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
But he also was engaged in the political culture of his own era, sometimes combatively so.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022
Korngold’s music was deemed degenerate by the Nazi party, suddenly grouped with more combatively modern works like Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” and Ernst Krenek’s “Jonny Spielt Auf.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
It was nothing like my book, a memoir based on lists written by my grandmother, so its existence should not have troubled me, yet my writing life somehow became combatively interwoven with his.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2019
“But that will be never,” her oldest daughter said combatively.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
