Wiktionary
combatively
adv. In a combative way.
WordNet
combatively
adv. in a bellicose contentious manner; "`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively" [syn: scrappily]
Usage examples of "combatively".
Nicola's legs, he saw, were set combatively apart, and the last button of her dress was unfastened.
She sat sunk down into the shape of her chair and her coat with her shoulders combatively flexed, her legs crossed, and one shoe bobbing patiently.
He said, combatively, to Fraulein Bunt, “And how is that poor chap who came up in the cable car this morning?
She would do it less combatively, Elizabeth knew, but the end result would be the same: she was uncomfortable with the fact that Many-Doves had a hand in the teaching.