Both Uses
belligerent
in
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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- He maintained a belligerent attitude toward all well-dressed men.
Chpt 4 *belligerent = hostile (eager to fight)
- They swaggered unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes.†
Chpt 11belligerently = with an attitude of one eager to fight
Definitions:
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(1)
(belligerent) hostile (the attitude of one eager to fight); or one already engaged in a fight or war
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)