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[ adverb ] in a belligerent hostile manner

Examples

"he pushed her against the wall belligerently"

Used in print

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group , then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ) , ah , then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted .

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