bellicose

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Showing or having the impulse to be combative
Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile
warlike
You use bellicose to refer to aggressive actions or behaviour that are likely to start an argument or a fight. He expressed alarm about the government's increasingly bellicose statements. = belligerent. behaving in a way that is likely to start an argument or fight = aggressive (bellicosus, from bellum )
having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"
{s} belligerent, quarrelsome
Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious
bellicous
bellicosity
The characteristic of being bellicose
bellicose
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