Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a bellicose or warlike manner; pugnaciously.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a bellicose manner.

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  • adverb In a bellicose manner

Etymologies

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bellicose +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Nishikanta bellicosely shouldered his vast bulk up to the captain, opened his shirt, and exposed his revolver.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • I also admire the fact that he drives a Buick, keeps in great shape, smokes Lucky Strikes with impunity, is bellicosely proud of his Irish-American heritage, swears like a sailor and says exactly what he thinks about everything.

    The Fashion Crimes of the Sneaker Set 2011

  • Other dogs ran free, playing with one another, or behaving bellicosely.

    CHAPTER XXXII 2010

  • As long as Cheney continues to loudly, and bellicosely defend the previous administration, the American people will not forget just how bad things were when Bush was in office.

    Lincoln Mitchell: Dick Cheney - The Republican Gift that Keeps Giving 2009

  • Other dogs ran free, playing with one another, or behaving bellicosely.

    Chapter 32 1917

  • Nishikanta bellicosely shouldered his vast bulk up to the captain, opened his shirt, and exposed his revolver.

    Chapter 15 1917

  • Jim, though sometimes bellicosely evangelical, was the soul of kindly goodness, cheerfulness and patience.

    The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

  • They proved that a seal pup could swim or not swim at birth by stating the proposition very bellicosely and then following it up with an attack on the opposing man's judgment, common sense, nationality, or past history.

    Chapter 4 1904

  • Bat stood bellicosely scowling at the three figures receding down the

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • To be sure, the combined results of Bering's and Cook's voyages proved there was no waterway through Alaska to the Atlantic; but in addition to blackening the reputations of the two great navigators in order to throw discredit on their conclusions, the schoolmen bellicosely demanded -- Might there not be a passage south of

    Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

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