Both Uses of
belligerent
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Anticipating Katie's refusal, she spoke belligerently.†
Chpt 38belligerently = with an attitude of one eager to fight
- He was very happy, he wrote and in belligerently underlined words threatened that he intended to stay that way.
Chpt 47 *
Definition:
hostile (the attitude of one eager to fight); or one already engaged in a fight or war