Synonyms for bellicose
ˈbɛl ɪˌkoʊsbel·li·cose

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1. bellicose

   Synonyms:
   adverse, alienated, antagonistic, belligerent, cold, contentious, disaffected, distant, estranged, frigid, hostile, ill-disposed, indifferent, inimical, unfriendly, unkind, warlike

   Antonyms:
   accessible, affable, affectionate, amicable, brotherly, companionable, complaisant, cordial, favorable, fond, friendly, genial, hearty, kind, kindly, loving, neighborly, sociable, social, tender, well-disposed

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1. bellicose

   Synonyms:
   quarrelsome, pugnacious, belligerent, irascible, contentious

   Antonyms:
   peaceful, peaceable, unquarrelsome, pacific, unwarlike, unexcitable, good-tempered, genial

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1. battleful, bellicose, combativeadjective

   having or showing a ready disposition to fight

   "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"

   Synonyms:
   agonistical, agonistic, battleful, litigious, disputative, combative, disputatious, contentious

   Antonyms:
   nonaggressive, unaggressive

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1. bellicoseadjective

   Synonyms:
   pugnacious, belligerent

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1. List of paraphrases for "bellicose":

   warlike, belligerent, warmongering, militant

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How to use bellicose in a sentence?

1. John McCain:

   Some of them seem to think that if I were just more bellicose in expressing what we're doing, that that would make a difference.

2. H. L. Mencken:

   All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

3. H.L. Mencken:

   All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

4. Philip Breedlove:

   We need to first and foremost signal that we cannot accept this change and that, if this change is continued, that we will have to change the cost calculus for Russia in order to help them to find their way to a less bellicose position.

5. John McCain:

   What I do not do is to take actions either because it is going to work politically or it is going to somehow, in the abstract, make America look tough, some of them seem to think that if I were just more bellicose in expressing what we're doing, that that would make a difference.