All 6 Uses of
belligerent
in
Babbitt
- Furiously he snatched up his tube of shaving-cream, furiously he lathered, with a belligerent slapping of the unctuous brush, furiously he raked his plump cheeks with a safety-razor.†
Chpt 1
- He felt a belligerent defiance which broke into a wincing fear of this machine which was grinding Paul—Paul—— Exactly at half-past three he sent in his name.†
Chpt 22
- THE strike which turned Zenith into two belligerent camps; white and red, began late in September with a walk-out of telephone girls and linemen, in protest against a reduction of wages.†
Chpt 27
- You were either a courageous friend of Labor, or you were a fearless supporter of the Rights of Property; and in either case you were belligerent, and ready to disown any friend who did not hate the enemy.†
Chpt 27
- He became belligerent.†
Chpt 29
- he was annoyed by such background thoughts as had never weakened him in his days of belligerent conformity.
Chpt 34 *belligerent = hostile (with the attitude of one eager to fight)
Definition:
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(belligerent) hostile (the attitude of one eager to fight); or one already engaged in a fight or war