belligerently

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English

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adv

"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."

Etymology tree English belligerent Middle English -ly English -ly English belligerently From belligerent + -ly.

more belligerently (comparative) most belligerently (superlative)

hostilely

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What does belligerently mean?

In a belligerent manner; with aggressive hostility.

Where does belligerently come from?

Etymology tree English belligerent Middle English -ly English -ly English belligerently From belligerent + -ly.

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