bellicose

She contrasted its timidity with a bellicose anti-Hagel salvo from the Christian-right group Concerned Women for America.

Be that as it may, the eyes of all rest upon the same unwarlike pictures torn from the same least bellicose journal.

I dare not speak, or could have asked them their mission, and they seemed quite dumbfounded at my bellicose attitude towards them.

This seemed to suit his bellicose eminence and to appeal to his barbaric vanity.

Herein it recalls in some respects the bellicose pacifism of the too celebrated Ostwald.

Naturally those parts of the river which remained unexplored were supposed to be the land of the "bellicose dames."