All 12 Uses of
belligerent
in
Atlas Shrugged
- "Well, Bertram Scudder said that your policy-" the man started belligerently, pointing toward the bar, but stopped, as if he had slid farther than he intended.†
Chpt 1.6
- She added belligerently, "You don't have to believe it.†
Chpt 1.6
- His hysterically belligerent manner was back, "I offered him more than anybody else did.†
Chpt 1.7
- His mother came in with an air of belligerent defensiveness.†
Chpt 1.7
- The third had said, his voice belligerently insolent, that he would attempt the task on a ten-year contract at twenty-five thousand dollars a year-"After all, Miss Taggart, if you expect to make huge profits on that motor, it's you who should pay for the gamble of my time.†
Chpt 2.1
- "I'm delighted to see you, of course," Taggart said cautiously, then added belligerently, to balance it, "But if you think you're going to-"†
Chpt 2.2
- His voice was belligerent and shaky.†
Chpt 2.6
- ...in the belligerently righteous style of a third-rate tabloid; her economics consisted of the assertion that "we've got to help the poor."
Chpt 2.7 *belligerently = with a manner of one eager to fight
- He saw defensively belligerent men and tastelessly dressed women-he saw mean, rancorous, suspicious faces that bore the one mark incompatible with a standard bearer of the intellect: the mark of uncertainty.†
Chpt 3.3
- He snapped his way through a brief speech, hailing a new era and declaring-in the belligerent tone of a challenge to unidentified enemies-that science belonged to the people and that every man on the face of the globe had a right to a share of the advantages created by technological progress.†
Chpt 3.3
- You've got to prevent it!" she said, in the belligerent tone of a plea disguised as a command.†
Chpt 3.4
- He said it belligerently and drew back a little.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(belligerent) hostile (the attitude of one eager to fight); or one already engaged in a fight or war