bellicose

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McCain is "bellicose," says Pat Buchanan, and putting Georgia on a fast track to NATO membership, as McCain favors, is "a fast track to war" - with a nuclear power.

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  1. adjective Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament. See Synonyms at belligerent.

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  • His exact words are that it is better to have a bellicose, apocalyptic, in-your-face Ahmadinejad who scares the world —  Watching the Watchers
  • They were believers in a church whose first tenet was the slightest military experience, they gave real meaning to the word bellicose. —  t r u t h o u t
  • The United States has succeeded in transforming a bellicose, autocratic state into a friendly one that is making steady progress towards becoming a self-sustaining democracy - the international community is finally coming to recognize this transformation. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • The beliefs of the bellicose, the rantings of the complacent, and the bluster of those secretly afraid, afraid that you will discover their secret, the secret that they have guarded so closely,
  • Just because your contemporaries tried very hard to make their actions match their simple-minded, bellicose, anti-progress, backward-time-traveling campaign promises doesn't mean you have much to complain about. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
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  1. Middle English, from Latin bellicōsus, from bellicus, of war, from bellum, war.

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  1. from Latin bellicosus, from bellum, Old Latin duellum, war, orig. a combat between two, from duo = English two. Cf. duel.
 

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/ˈbɛlɪkoʊs/
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