bellicose

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If they get bellicose, then our nukes will come in handy.

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having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"

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adjective

having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bellicose.

adjective

having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"

Example sentences

If they get bellicose, then our nukes will come in handy.

"Well that kind of bellicose chest-thumping should certainly win people over to the cause.

You risk being labeled as recalcitrant and bellicose...

> The tweet, in case readers thought it too subtle, contained a photograph of Tsai alongside the bellicose text.

As bellicose as Putin is, he is militarily bogged down in Ukraine.

A few might even be overtly negative or bellicose.

My more bellicose relations would be able to vote for this war without any serious fear of being drafted.

It might take MS one or two iterations to get it right, but if MS is willing to become bellicose on its strategy, people will take risks and develop.

The CCP currently has concentration camps and is starting to act fairly imperialistic and bellicose.

I find it ironic that the tone gets so bellicose at times, and also kind of wonder what the purpose of the implied threat at the end was in an article that started out so reasonably.

Snowden's just providing proof that, despite what it always says, it's actually the US that is belligerent and bellicose, attacking everyone, even supposed allies.

For those who don't recall, Russia had big reasons to endorse Trump over Hillary in 2016: Hillary was bellicose about Russia and Syria, to the point where people echoed worries she'd plunge us into "WW3".

They are the “deep structures of masculinity” and are present in societies that are patriarchal as well as those that are relatively egalitarian, primitive as well as urban, bellicose as well as peaceable.

You might argue that they're just protecting their products from piracy, but when it comes to things like the blank CD-R tax and DRM keeping you from backing up your own files, they definitely are that bellicose in my opinion, and I think they've destroyed their goodwill.

See Australians increased military budget citing specifically so, or how their foreign minister upheld US position on SCS but publicly distanced herself from Trump/Pompeo bellicose China policy.

I'm not particularly bothered by the US military investigating bellicose nations and/or nationals, but I'd prefer to avoid military operations in allied territory to whatever degree possible -- we should pretend to some degree of civilization.