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Full of aggression or hostility

Behaving or done in a determined and forceful way

Characterized by aggression in governmental foreign relations

Ambitious or difficult to achieve

Marked by a likelihood to threaten the safety of a person or persons

Involving physical conflict, or having a propensity to use physical force

Full of anger or hatred

Exerting influence in an oppressive manner

Showing no signs of being under control

Circulating quickly

Vigorously incisive or critical

Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

With directness or without compromise

Causing anger or another strong reaction, especially deliberately

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Adjective

Full of aggression or hostility

confrontational

spoiling for a fight

ready for a fight

have chip on shoulder

have a bone to pick

having a chip on one's shoulder

itching to fight

looking for trouble

on a short fuse

ill-disciplined

ill-humoured^UK

socially impaired

undisciplinable

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“While I was depressed, I would sometimes become aggressive towards those who were only trying to help me.”

Adjective

Behaving or done in a determined and forceful way

pulling no punches

full of oneself

every person for themselves

full of get-up-and-go

fiercely competitive

intensely competitive

coming on strong

full of vim and vigour

not backward in coming forward

having killer instinct

pressurizing^US

sure of oneself

pressurising^UK

believing in oneself

keen as mustard

like a ball of fire

full of determination

desiring success

as bold as brass

full of yourself

self-respecting

not taking no for an answer

tough as old boots

as tough as old boots

bound and determined

stop at nothing

alive and kicking

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

full of the joys of spring

bright and breezy

extremely enthusiastic

overly solicitous

one hundred per cent

aggressively male

unpleasantly masculine

spoiling for a fight

ready for action

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“When delivering his sales pitch, his strategy was both methodical and aggressive.”

Adjective

Characterized by aggression in governmental foreign relations

confrontational

battle-hardened

at daggers drawn

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“Citizens were concerned at the appointment of a security advisor with a history of pushing for aggressive foreign policies.”

Adjective

Ambitious or difficult to achieve

“The executive team has set some rather aggressive sales targets for the new financial year.”

Adjective

Marked by a likelihood to threaten the safety of a person or persons

unfavourable^UK

disadvantageous

suggestive of evil

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Involving physical conflict, or having a propensity to use physical force

hammer-and-tongs

knock-down-and-drag-out

red in tooth and claw

desensitized^US

take-no-prisoners

desensitised^UK

with a heart of stone

uncompassionate

lacking compassion

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

Mephistophelian

killer instinct

anesthetized^US

anaesthetized^UK

double-crossing

unconscientious

beyond the pale

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Adjective

Not friendly

uncommunicative

not on speaking terms

confrontational

unfavourable^UK

dead set against

dissenting from

acting in opposition

in disagreement with

at variance with

ill-humoured^UK

rubbing the wrong way

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With force

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Full of anger or hatred

evil-intentioned

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Adjective

Exerting influence in an oppressive manner

Adjective

Showing no signs of being under control

Adjective

Circulating quickly

Adjective

Vigorously incisive or critical

extremely critical

evil-intentioned

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Adjective

Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

unfavourable^UK

suggestive of evil

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Adjective

With directness or without compromise

confrontational

Adjective

Causing anger or another strong reaction, especially deliberately

Adjective

Causing fear

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

unfavourable^UK

disadvantageous

causing excitement

life-threatening

suggestive of evil

adrenaline-charged

emotionally charged

extremely upsetting

emotionally exhausting

emotionally depleting

emotionally draining

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