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What does bellicose mean?

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Adjective
  1. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
  2. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
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And people in charge of both governments have become more bellicose by the day.
The sculptures seem like bellicose battleships, flaunting jagged-ribbed fins and sawtooth incisors.
Tired of criticising les rosbifs as backward and bellicose, they are marvelling at Britain's economic robustness.
Rewriting of history for bellicose use can also, presumably, be a very fine art.
In contrast, moderate voices are rarely heard and often relentlessly overruled by barrages of bellicose opinions.
At the end of the 19th century, people were full of hope and expectations of a more peaceful, more contented, less bellicose world.

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