combative
adjective
ready or inclined to fight; pugnacious.
combatively
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a word derived from
combative.
Example Sentences
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They performed combatively in the Scottish Cup final last season, but lost.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
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
And yet, he combatively reserved for himself the superlative of greatest rock drummer, unbeatable even with constant, self-inflicted health setbacks.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2019
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
