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  • adverb In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

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  • adverb In a belligerent manner

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  • adverb with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner

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Examples

  • "There'll be a fine day," belligerently, "when 'Scotty' Allan'll find out that there dog's a fake,

    Baldy of Nome Esther Birdsall Darling

  • To add to that, an eye witness interviewd by CNN says, "I heard nothing that Gates said but, I believe he acted belligerently" ...

    NRCC targets Obama for saying Cambridge cop 'acted stupidly' 2009

  • The women at the boards near to her scrambled, first, to the hot iron to save the cloth, and then to her, while the forewoman hurried belligerently down the aisle.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • “So it was you, was it, you black beggar?” belligerently demanded one Kelly, an Irish-American and a longshoreman, making his first trip to sea, and boat-puller for Kerfoot.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • They ignored the command, tacitly agreeing to fight it out on land where it seemed safer for the belligerently inclined.

    Goliah 2010

  • Dream we are obliged to defend ms we are particularly taken with at the moment before a panel of senior agents, all of whom belligerently scoff at its merits.

    MONDAY 2009

  • Now, perhaps you think Gaza is no longer belligerently occupied.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010

  • But some of them are pretty belligerently Christian (wearing crosses around their necks, eating and selling pork, etc.)

    Matthew Yglesias » War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce 2009

  • Now, perhaps you think Gaza is no longer belligerently occupied.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010

  • "You're a peach of a dog man, you are," he announced belligerently.

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

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