Belligerent
Antonyms of BELLIGERENT
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So he saw himself- himself as an identity emerging at last from the confusion of time and place and circumstance; for there followed the public school, the joys of rivalry, the eager outrush for the boy's Ever New, the glory of scrimmage and school- boy sports, the battle royal for the little Auvergnat when taunted with the epithet " Johnny Frog" by the belligerent youth, American born, and the victorious outcome for the " foreigner"; the Auvergne blood was up, and the temperament volcanic like his native soil where subterranean heats evidence themselves in hot, out- welling waters. "Flamsted quarries" by Mary E. Waller
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Graham's disapproval was belligerent. "The Abandoned Room" by Wadsworth Camp
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The girl dropped her beets into the pail, and stood gazing on her strange visitor, half shy, half belligerent. "Norston's Rest" by Ann S. Stephens