(p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.
(n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
Example Sentences:
(1) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(2) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
(3) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
(4) This plays into the widespread belief that Muslims are under attack from a belligerent west and its local proxies.
(5) In international affairs he has found the only posture more dangerous than belligerence – incoherence.
(6) The belligerence of 7 patients who had suffered an acute brain insult was effectively controlled by propranolol in doses of 60 to 320 mg per day.
(7) However, despite the country’s belligerent behaviour in the region and its egregious human rights record, which have long left it isolated, there is an opportunity for engagement given that prominent regime officials have indicated a willingness to reform.
(8) Asked about the status of his own job, the press secretary joked “I’m right here”, telling reporters, in a belligerent line that could have been uttered by his impersonator Melissa McCarthy: “You can keep taking your selfies.” The president was busy sowing confusion by trying a new passive-aggressive tone on Twitter , musing: “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out.
(9) Despite the pro-AV leader, Ed Miliband, having stuck his neck out a few times for the yeses, belligerent turns by grumpy old stagers such as John Reid and David Blunkett have created the impression that the people's party has no interest in giving the people more of a say.
(10) To avoid this, women in high executive office often assume a corporate persona that overcompensates by being either brittle and defensive, or Thatcher-esque in terms of belligerence.
(11) European commission upgrades growth forecast for UK economy Read more Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, said: “The initial belligerence of the Trump administration towards China and Japan appears to have given way to a more practicable way of doing things, and while peace may not have broken out quite yet, some welcome pragmatism does appear to be taking hold in Washington.
(12) Mattis pointedly warned North Korea to back off, pledging an “overwhelming” response to any belligerence .
(13) Germany's bureaucratic stasis contrasts with a welter of events, official and unofficial, digital, public and private, in the other former belligerent countries.
(14) For the highest purpose of a democratic government is to bring a society together and hold it together, not to divide it with fears, with rumours of wars, with acts of belligerence against other and then against its own.
(15) But if the odd local blog bristles that us lot should “go back where we came from”, the antipathy to immigrants from farther away ( 8.59% of the local population, according to a recent Oxford University study ; far lower than the 12.5% national average) is much stronger: especially to the eastern Europeans, many of whom have landed in scruffy parts of Cliftonville, where they have belligerently set about opening shops and car washes, and trying to get on with their lives.
(16) Five and a half decades of history show us that such belligerence inhibits better judgement.
(17) The White House condemned the attack as "belligerent", adding: "The United States is firmly committed to the defence of our ally … and to the maintenance of regional peace and stability."
(18) Clapper described the threats from Pyongyang as "very belligerent" and said he is "very concerned about the actions of the new young leader", Kim Jong-un .
(19) Israeli voters – including Labourites disillusioned by what they saw as Palestinian mendacity and belligerency – felt drawn to the old warrior.
(20) These conciliatory tactics did not immediately appeal to Thatcher, though she learned to swallow her belligerence.
Obstreperous
Definition:
(a.) Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, lawyers say the prosecution has partly been hamstrung by an obstreperous police force that would prefer to drag its feet than help incriminate its own leaders.
(2) An obstreperous cabinet minister, such as Gordon Brown, can simply tell No 10 they cannot work with a proposed junior.
(3) Meanwhile, its Syrian branch plays a significant (and, some argue, obstreperous) role in the country's ongoing civil war .
(4) Or is the citizen rightfully an unpredictable source of obstreperous demands and assertions of rights?
(5) His antisemitism, his obstreperous nationalistic rants were one side of his personality; his art another.
(6) He could be awkward and obstreperous, and some of his involvement in transfer dealings was murky, but Keshi was, at international level, the finest African coach of his generation and he was fun to be around.
(7) Not too long ago, Chris Christie, the obstreperous governor of New Jersey, liked to tout something he called a "Jersey Comeback".
(8) Rare is the week that passes without the Daily Mail or Daily Telegraph, both keen critics of David Cameron's coalition deal, taking a poke at the energy and climate change secretary as its most obstreperous symbol.
(9) To evaluate the usefulness and reliability of the Caretaker Obstreperous-Behavior Rating Assessment (COBRA), a new test instrument for caretaker assessment of types and severity of "obstreperous behaviors" (OBs) in demented patients.
(10) Even the most obstreperous teenagers showed us their warmth – the head to head interviews with the students helped us to see their humanity and, as the staff did, we liked them and sympathised with them, despite their capacity to behave like Catherine Tate's "Lauren" on occasion.
(11) They say the 24-hour media cycle, that amplifies every trivial misstep and has little patience for complex argument, the Senate voting system that throws up obstreperous upper houses and the negativity of recent oppositions has just made it too tricky to do anything hard.
(12) The world's most famous Luxembourger is now involved in an existential fight for his own political survival: a fight in which he can claim the highest principles of democracy to be on his side against Britain's bullying obstreperousness.
(13) I thought it was pessimistic, he insisted it wasn’t, and when I refused to change my mind he called me an “obstreperous bastard”.
(14) At the centre of it all, driving the economic vortex that is controlling public life, are "The Markets", a merciless, amoral, almost mythical force, behaving with the irrational self-indulgence of a particularly obstreperous Greek god.
(15) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opens 20 September First Chicago Architecture Biennial A pet project of Rahm Emanuel, the Windy City’s obstreperous mayor, this city-spanning new initiative looks at the state of the building arts in America’s second Gilded Age.