What's the difference between battleful and bellicose?
Battleful
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Bellicose
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
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(1) And increasingly, according to those familiar with how Saif and his brother Saadi are thinking, Gaddafi's sons have become aware that they have a problem that they need to find a way out of – despite Saif's bellicose language.
(2) Privately, Chinese diplomats are alarmed and critical about North Korea's bellicosity.
(3) The former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, said: “Blaming foreigners and an unsubstantiated European plot for her own government’s shortcomings is more worthy of [Turkish president Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan than Downing Street.” Conservative strategists believe May’s bellicose performance outside No 10 will have played well with voters who are keen to see Britain take an assertive approach to the talks.
(4) I worry, however, that China will become more bellicose in the wake of this decision and flex its military muscles more visibly, prompting the US to do the same, which could lead to heightened tensions in the region.
(5) "If Obama allows the Israeli agenda on Iran to become America's, his outreach is dead... Netanyahu's bellicosity (towards Iran) is as unrelenting as his desire to distract attention from stillborn Palestine."
(6) He's the head of a crew of rappers including Ross, Meek Mill and Wale, named Maybach Music Group after Mercedes's notoriously expensive car, the man who likes to be called "the Boss" – pronounced "Bawse" – and the rapper who since his 2006 breakthrough hit Hustlin' has used his signature bellicose baritone to tell stories of drug dealing and murder that make Tony Montana sound like Alfie Moon.
(7) Josh Frydenberg says grand mufti had 'graphic failure' of leadership Read more At this point, a number of his colleagues – acting out of opportunism, bellicosity, or simple ignorance – chimed in.
(8) The main pillars of Trump’s political and economic project are: the deconstruction of the regulatory state; a full‑bore attack on the welfare state and social services (rationalised, in part, through bellicose racial fearmongering and attacks on women for exercising their rights); the unleashing of a domestic fossil-fuel frenzy (which requires the sweeping aside of climate science and the gagging of large parts of the government bureaucracy); and a civilisational war against immigrants and “radical Islamic terrorism” (with ever expanding domestic and foreign theatres).
(9) The deepening polarisation is intensified by Erdogan's bellicose rhetoric.
(10) In characteristically bellicose language, Putin accused Ukraine of playing a dangerous game.”We obviously will not let such things slide by,” the Russian president said on Wednesday.
(11) Pyongyang often issues bellicose warnings when military manoeuvres are due in the area.
(12) But the White House National Security Council told reporters the ICBM launch was “previously notified and routine,” not cause for a new round of alarm over Russian bellicosity.
(13) Met by a government resolute in its position, the protests grew steadily larger, and more bellicose.
(14) Probably not, even though bellicosity can be dangerous.
(15) Her voice, a bellicose yawn, somehow both boring and boring – I could ignore the content but the intent drilled its way in.
(16) The Soviet response was silence, followed by bellicose denial, followed by efforts to derail the international investigation.
(17) In past heated exchanges – before I was overpowered by the bellicose booming voice of a white male ally or bro, and I checked out – what was revealed in that exchange is how many people view race and class as separate things in American society.
(18) Columnist Matthew Parris, a friend of Gove, warned in the Times last week that the minister appears to have "a secret feral side", aided and abetted by "a bellicose claque of advisers, the education secretary's virtual motorcade".
(19) The bishop of Birmingham, David Urquhart, together with Labour MPs Liam Byrne and Shabana Mahmood, whose constituents have been embroiled in the controversy, are forming a pan-religious group in response to what they consider increasingly bellicose rhetoric by ministers over the so-called Trojan Horse affair.
(20) While stressing that he believes controls on migration are needed, he also said that immigration had great advantages for the UK and that critics of recent immigration trends had made their case in a "bellicose and strident tone".