Bellicose

//ˈbɛlɪkoʊs//

"Bellicose" in a Sentence (6 examples)

They would unquestionably diminish his bellicose outbursts.

Such a bellicose attitude won't win you any friends.

"What's that supposed to mean?" he asked in a bellicose tone.

CHINA sent both bellicose and conciliatory signals yesterday as tension continued in the Taiwan Strait over Chinese military exercises and the deployment of US naval battle groups.

The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).

[Greenland's current Prime Minister Múte] Egede has insisted that Greenland is not for sale and he framed the polling partly as a referendum on Trump's seemingly bellicose bullying, saying the election was a "fateful choice."

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