1. aggressive acts against another country
2. a belligerent tone
1. "Religion turned some folks belligerent."
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Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl
2. "He was one of those men ... who know in their hearts that for all their edgy, belligerent hardness they are just unhappy kids, emotional retards."
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Iain Banks, Espedair Street
3. "Nothing, it seemed, could break through their belligerent isolation; moreover, this attitude left no room for any argument, since all roads led to just one conclusion."
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Suki Kim, Without You
4. "Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal."
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Quote by Benjamin Spock
5. "Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. The"
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Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
6. "The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln"
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Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
7. "For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use."
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Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
8. "The effective object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state of uninhibited and belligerent euphoria which follows the ingestion of the third cocktail."
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Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
9. "But that battered word, truth, having made its appearance here, confronts one immediately with a series of riddles and has, moreover, since so many gospels are preached, the unfortunate tendency to make one belligerent."
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James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
10. "For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions."
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Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts