Combative

The combative patient was given a tranquilizer.

As is usual, he is combative.

He is his usual combative self.

Tom is a combative player.

Alberto was very combative and unapologetic.

The gaze was long and combative in its character, and constituted a trial of that moral strength which each, in the peculiar constitution of his being, seemed to possess.

Tom is combative.

But while toward cats of his own sex he is fierce and combative, he is just as meek and deferential to his mother as he was in his tender kittenhood.

Their combative conduct leads to many problems.

He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.