(a.) Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
Example Sentences:
(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".
Contentious
Definition:
(a.) Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.
(a.) Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention.
(a.) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(2) How to administer the fund is another contentious area.
(3) They make a big deal when it happens, and then they forget.” The use of sarin has been highly contentious throughout the Syrian war.
(4) The election in the capital of the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation has been deeply contentious.
(5) I can only say, we want to do more in terms of research and we obviously want to support our scientists.” NCRIS is not specifically mentioned in the contentious higher education bill that the Senate will debate next week.
(6) I’ve never had a black person or a brown person ever say anything bad about me.” Then he proceeded to make fresh contentious comments, first by repeating the comparison between slavery and welfare dependence: “Receiving welfare and housing – is that a sense of slavery when you get caught up in that and can’t get out of it for generations?
(7) Garcia, who sought to interview all 22 executive committee members who made the contentious decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar but found some who are no longer in football beyond his reach, delivered his report this month.
(8) The Jedwabne massacre and Kaminski's line that "Jews should say sorry for killing Poles" during the second world war is by far the most important of the many contentious issues on this man.
(9) Samuel Wurzelbacher, who became famous during the 2008 election as “Joe the Plumber” after he had a heated discussion with Obama on the campaign trail, was championed by presidential nominee John McCain but later made contentious remarks such as a call to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting”.
(10) Southern said on Tuesday it would reinstate travel passes for staff and allow them to swap shifts, reversing two contentious moves following strike action.
(11) Meanwhile, MPs in Athens approved the contentious reforms and austerity package demanded by its creditors amid angry scenes in parliament and violent clashes on the streets on Wednesday.
(12) Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, has resigned, formally setting off what will be a contentious election to replace him.
(13) There is a growing conviction that medical technologies are major contributors to escalating costs, and regulating them is generally viewed as the least contentious way to control expenses in the 1980's.
(14) The contentious position is set to be waved into the final EU negotiating position by consensus.
(15) But this later proved contentious because the reserve appeared to preclude any resettlement of the atolls by islanders whose families had been evicted in 1965 to make way for a giant US air force base.
(16) The treasurer Joe Hockey has hinted the government might be prepared to shift ground on its insistence that a crucial $150m research funding extension hinges on the passage of contentious legislation to deregulate university fees.
(17) Business rates have long been a contentious issue among retailers, who argue the system penalises high street premises and unfairly benefits online retailers.
(18) Osborne also envisages “demonstrating the concept” of safe fracking by “focusing on a small number of sites in less contentious locations” including “public sector land (particularly MOD owned)”.
(19) Trump is an isolationist so the Chinese are going to see that as an opportunity to keep strengthening their position and their role in the region.” Delury said Trump was also likely to ditch the highly contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which under Obama had been “a centrepiece of an American resurgence of its role in Asia”.
(20) Political distortion And in all of this, Brooks consistently injected a highly contentious political ideology into the arteries of public debate, a toxic cocktail of crude populism and intellectual confusion.