All 4 Uses of
belligerent
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- Fletcher and myself are as much in love as the day we married," said Mrs. Fletcher belligerently as Leota stuffed cotton into her ears.†
Story 1.3 *
- "We don't take money for such," said Sonny's voice belligerently.†
Story 1.15
- Mr. Voight before so very long-it happened during a sojourn home of Mr. MacLain, she remembered-was transferred to travel another seven states, ending the problem; and yet Mr. Voight had done something that amounted to more than going naked under his robe and calling alarm like a turkey gobbler, it was more belligerent; and the least describable thing of all had been a look on his face; that was strange.†
Story 3.27
- Besides, though the cafeteria was economical and healthy, just now it had begun to be infested by those wiry, but unlucky, old men forever reading racing forms as they drank coffee; one particularly, in a belligerent pea-green sweater with yellow bands, seemed to change the whole tone of the place simply by always occupying the table anybody else would want.†
Story 3.31
Definition:
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(belligerent) hostile (the attitude of one eager to fight); or one already engaged in a fight or war