belligerently

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1. 1

   In a belligerent manner

   In a belligerent manner; with aggressive hostility.

   • They swaggered unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes.
   • “How’d you get a job like this?” she asked. “A fella got to eat,” he began; and then, belligerently, “A fella got a right to eat.”
   • In truth, Mrs. Lish’s charge of anti-Semitism had backfired with a number of the faculty, who were quite belligerently anti-Semitic themselves.

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