What does belligerently mean?
Belligerently means In a belligerent manner; with aggressive hostility..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
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.
Use belligerently when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Belligerently means In a belligerent manner; with aggressive hostility..
Common synonyms include hostilely, with hostility.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They swaggered unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes.
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