belligerently

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
24
Letters
13

Definition of belligerently

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a belligerent manner; with aggressive hostility.
    “They swaggered unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes.”
    ““How’d you get a job like this?” she asked. “A fella got to eat,” he began; and then, belligerently, “A fella got a right to eat.””
    “In truth, Mrs. Lish’s charge of anti-Semitism had backfired with a number of the faculty, who were quite belligerently anti-Semitic themselves.”

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Etymology

From belligerent + -ly.

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