(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.
Warlike
Definition:
(a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.
(a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.
Example Sentences:
(1) You fight a dirty war with innovations.” Rawat expressed frustration about the pressures faced by his soldiers, required to police their own citizens in an environment the Indian government has described as “warlike”.
(2) There is relief in South Korea that people who have heard little or nothing about their loved ones will at last meet, and that the North's threats and warlike rhetoric have died down, but there is also wariness and deep mistrust.
(3) This exemption is granted when an individual dies while serving in the armed forces, provided they were either “on active service against an enemy” or “on other service of a warlike nature, or which, in the opinion of the Treasury, involved the same risks as service of a warlike nature”.
(4) Consecutive memorial directors have referred to the institution's 1980 Act, stipulating that they must tell the story of "wars and war-like operations in which Australians have been on active service, including the events leading up to, and the aftermath of, such wars and warlike operations".
(5) The story of the United Kingdom, the story that should shape the current debate but hasn’t thus far, is one of relentless English expansion – sometimes peaceful and sometimes warlike – at the expense of the non-English nations of the Britannic archipelago.
(6) "It seems a shame to deprive ordinary people of that just because the maharishi considers our government bellicose and warlike."
(7) The G8 statement was released amid the first signs that all parties were edging away from the warlike rhetoric of recent weeks.
(8) Jesus Camp is "a sarcastic documentary that paints evangelical, fundamentalist, charismatic, and politically concerned Christians as very shrill, warlike and dangerous," a critic wrote on the Christian website MovieGuide.org .
(9) The weak-willed Henry VI is markedly different from his father, grandfather, and son who were all valiant, warlike, and brave.
(10) Was Lieutenant James Patrick killed during “warlike” service, or did his death occur during a “routine” training exercise?
(11) The announcement comes as tensions eased after weeks of warlike threats between North and South Korea, including vows of nuclear strikes from the North.
(12) It’s a film which playfully toyed with the perceived homoeroticism of the male-warrior culture: depicting the Spartans as brave, warlike and noble, but the Persians as in thrall to an effeminate and contemptible king: Xerxes.
(13) Up to 100 people from two tribes of warlike Huaorani Indians live there in voluntary isolation and, within a kilometre of where we are standing, it has been estimated, live 150 frog, 120 reptile, 600 bird and 200 mammal species, including nearly 100 species of bat.
(14) Pirgos Mavromichali, Limeni Pirgos Mavromichali, Limeni The "Tower of Mavromichali" is the old family stronghold of Petrobey Mavromichalis (or Black Michael) one of the semi-autonomous rulers of the warlike Mani region during Turkish occupation in the 19th century.
(15) He came into office pledging to seek a diplomatic deal with Iran over its nuclear programme, an approach that contrasted with the warlike rhetoric of the Bush administration.
(16) "I wouldn't say we're stupid, but we Chechens are more warlike than other nations, and have allowed our warrior instinct and ourselves to be exploited."
(17) On its website, the SPVA explains that if a serving or former member of the armed forces dies from – or their death can be shown to have been "hastened by" – an injury sustained or disease contracted on active service against the enemy "or other service of a warlike nature" (such as operations against hostile forces in peace time or anti-terrorist operations), a complete exemption from inheritance tax can be granted to their estate under the provisions of section 154 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984.
(18) Peter Ramsauer, chairman of the German parliament’s economics committee, also talked about the “economic warlike traits” of the US approach.
(19) the existence of the peaceful and the warlike ege as 'doubles'), producing a multiple personality in which the formation of the ego ideal, moulded by themes of terror, threatens to exert a transgenerational influence owing to a superego identification with the Nazi aspects of the father, while the 'borrowed guilt' from the father corresponds to a melancholic identification; the regressive concretization in the form of a transitory delusion also belongs to the context of the latter.
(20) The concept of coping is firmly embedded in warlike connotations.