What is "combative"

Usage examples of "combative".

Lacking the combative temperament of a true polemicist, he contented himself mainly with pointing out various crudities and absurdities in an amused and superior manner, employing an irony that often made his meaning obscure and was soon to have disastrous consequences for the journal.

The challenge was a figurative one and Webb knew it, but his combative fever was running high.

Same old snitty, combative attitude, and the same utter lack of customer skills.

He is a canny, combative Brooklynite who likes to give the impression that he has an inside edge.

Russian one, imbued with combative spirit and faith in the future, but a Schopenhauerian variant weighed down by the belief that existence is only a realm of unrelieved suffering.

Rigid, combative fanatic that he is, the tightfisted Backson is just too hard on himself, too hard on others, and too hard on the world that heroically attempts to carry on in spite of what he is doing to it.

Homer Wells, were comprised of experiences more combative than educational.

The seminaked little body seemed combative, fists clenched, knees flexed.

Neither accoster recognized it as a combative crouch until he shoved his staff between Hakky's legs and jerked it up hard, and even while Hakky was sucking in an audible, high-voiced gasp of pain, the quarry danced back and gave Ahaz such a crack in the side of his shin that the youth squealed and went down.

As never before in their history, they became for a time a cooperative society of beings, their combative nature stemmed by a compact, a truce.

The material components of this spell are the priest's holy symbol, dog fur (for a non-combative dog) or a dog tooth (for a combative dog).

The combative urge was such a strong factor in scaling the evolutionary ladder that it cannot be easily put aside.

When he is sedated, if he's been combative again, he still babbles, but you can't make out what he's saying.