bellicose
adjective
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Contemporary Examples of bellicose
In the last decades of his life he became reclusive and bellicose.
This explains why the Tea Party faithful often appear to be so bellicose.
In 2009 he published a book defaming Hitchens and Richard Dawkins because he was irked by their bellicose brand of atheism.
China is clearly frustrated with its destitute, bellicose neighbor.
She contrasted its timidity with a bellicose anti-Hagel salvo from the Christian-right group Concerned Women for America.
Historical Examples of bellicose
I am the least bellicose of men, I believe I can say I may afford to be so.
The Daltons, Volume I (of II)Charles James Lever
The disappointment was felt keenly even by the bellicose cook.
Up the Forked RiverEdward Sylvester Ellis
Pountner and Holdenough were to some extent ashamed of their bellicose Dean.
Is He Popenjoy?Anthony Trollope
Yet how if those young men are not bellicose like their wise seniors?
Waiting for DaylightHenry Major Tomlinson
The family Spratt-head was rather a fat-head,And a bellicose body to boot.
The Book of Humorous VerseVarious