What is "pugnaciously"

Usage examples of "pugnaciously".

He strode directly and pugnaciously at one of the little puffs, and it gave way before him and they were out of the circle.

Chief White Halfoat, staggering inside the tent just then with a bottle of whiskey cradled in his arm and sitting himself down pugnaciously between the two of them.

Dobbs answered pugnaciously in his rough, quavering, overwrought voice.

One of the sitting men cursed pugnaciously and hurled a wine bottle at Yossarian when he turned to look up.

But Lemuel caught hold of his wrists, not hard or pugnaciously, but intensely, making him listen and understand.

Here he glowered around him pugnaciously as if the character of a dead saint had been called in question.

To Servilia, however, he was an absolute monster-loud, slow to learn, insensitive, and so pugnaciously quarrelsome that he had been a thorn in the side of his older siblings from the time he began to walk and talk.

But whatever she might become in the future, she was only a captain at the moment, and he let himself lean towards her, using his twenty-centimeter height advantage to loom pugnaciously over her.

Many of the others shouted Koberly down, but a few agreed pugnaciously that Wynline owed them an apology.