Greg Boyle

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

American Clergyman

Douglas Adams

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

English Writer

Elmer Davis

This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.

American Journalist

Eamon de Valera

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

Irish Statesman

Gerrit Smith

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

American Politician

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Burmese Activist

Gene Tunney

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

American Athlete

Gore Vidal

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

American Novelist

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

English Comedian

Ian Hart

English Actor

Implies disapproval of the aggressive behaviour, often viewed negatively by others.

Negative Connotation

Carries an emotional weight that suggests anger or hostility, rather than calm disagreement.

Emotionally Charged

Can refer to verbal aggression or a confrontational attitude, not just physical acts.

Not Always Physical

Used in military or conflict contexts to describe warring parties clearly.

Military Specific

As a noun, it doesn't imply good or bad; it only states involvement in conflict.

Neutral Term

In international law, 'belligerent' labels a legally recognized war participant.

Legal Use

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 other but size isn't everything it's about confidence and posturing too as this belligerent Bulldog knows the young labrador uses a trick she learnt in play

Belligerent

Negative Connotation

Emotionally Charged

Not Always Physical

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