belligerently

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English

Etymology

From belligerent +‎ -ly.

Adverb

belligerently (comparative more belligerently, superlative most belligerently)

  1. In a belligerent manner; with aggressive hostility.
    • 1896, Stephen Crane, chapter 11, in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets‎, New York: Appleton, pages 88–89:
      They swaggered unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes.
    • 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 26, in The Grapes of Wrath‎, New York: Viking, published 1962, page 512:
      “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.”
    • 1989, John Irving, chapter 7, in A Prayer for Owen Meany‎, New York: William Morrow, page 338:
      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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