(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".
Truculent
Definition:
(a.) Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
(a.) Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ferguson's truculence conceals an even deeper romantic streak.
(2) In this dance to the music of time in Britain, the Tories are sworn to maintain the hegemony of the free market and Labour to ensure that the idiot punters don’t become too truculent.
(3) Western leaders, increasingly exasperated at Iran's nuclear truculence, were little assuaged by Iran's belated admission of the site's existence, which appears to have come after Iran learned that western intelligence services were on to its secret establishment.
(4) Yet Begin made the mistake of alienating Thatcher with his truculent stance over settlement expansion, and their relationship never recovered.
(5) Wreathed in smiles and profuse apologies for delaying Chisora, after he and Andy Gray had chit-chatted with the often truculent boxer on live radio, Keys delivers some cheery advice in the TalkSport studios.
(6) Less publicly, Trump appears tacitly or explicitly to have given the green light to the Saudi royals to go on the offensive against its truculent neighbour.
(7) The business secretary understands perfectly well that the slump is all about a want of demand – and cannot be explained by rightwing fairy stories about truculent workers pricing themselves out of the market.
(8) It was just bonkers," says Alan Postlethwaite, the truculent vicar of Seascale, who was accused of being a crypto-communist for even thinking the plant might be linked to cancers.
(9) There was the truculent Ray Donovan, featuring Jon Voight; the truculent Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman as an absurdly tetchy racetrack gambler and gangster, involving much mumbling in half-lit rooms; and there was the truculent Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a corrupt Chicago mayor, which never quite escaped the stigma of expecting Niles Crane to burst into the room in a flap about missing his appointment to visit the newly opened downtown doll museum.
(10) The Russian foreign ministry released a truculent statement before Tillerson arrived in Moscow, noting that Russian-American relations were going through the “most difficult period since the end of the cold war”.
(11) Her face is truculent; she stares up and away from Oberon, who is apparently being restrained by a sharp-faced Puck.
(12) He took after Rabelais in his humour and certainly also in his truculence, but he was above all himself in his films as in life."
(13) No, the bigger question is this: can Europe handle democracy, however awkward and messy and downright truculent it may be?
(14) Strongly Eurosceptic, with hardline anti-abortion views and hawkish foreign policy, he established himself as a truculent minister who was not afraid to make clear his opposition to coalition policies and Cameron's "compassionate conservatism".
(15) At a later date, speaking on Oprah Winfrey's chatshow, the famously truculent Campbell refused to comment further, saying simply: "I don't want to be involved in this man's case – he has done some terrible things and I don't want to put my family in danger."
(16) Edward VI was originally painted with his legs far apart, echoing a famously truculent image of his father – but it evidently looked too peculiar in a portrait of a young boy, and so the artist changed it to a more natural stance.
(17) All patients met Asher's description for the emergency presentation, the truculence-evasiveness manner, the luxuriance of tales, the eclecticism of the alleged symptoms, the vehement request of dangerous or painful procedures and the apparent senselessness.
(18) Cross-country runs began with a truculent jog until we were out of sight of the teachers, at which point we would repair to the nearest newsagent for sweets and fags.
(19) Nevertheless I went to Old Trafford, in some way heartened by the purity of the truculence, football now having been largely rinsed of its scintillating aggression.
(20) He is one of the most skilled practitioners of the tricky art – much under-rated, sometimes mocked – of keeping the show on the road when the cameras are rolling, dealing with truculent interviewees, sometimes juggling numerous stories and at others filling airtime with informed and engaging commentary when, frankly, there's not much going on.