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    Use "combative" in a sentence

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    combative


    1. However, as I mentioned before, Atlantica may be in the center of just such a potential problem that could become combative


    2. “With this in my hand, I feel my combative ability has been restored to what it was before I was maimed


    3. When someone behaves in a way that seems toxic, combative and filled with hatred towards you be happy that you are made aware of their behavior


    4. Whereas I relied on charm and friendliness for survival, he, having none of either, had learned to be combative and competitive and managed to hold his own, arriving in Aswan only slightly battered


    5. It was said of the combative German by his opponents that every time the he touched them was like an electric shock


    6. combative with other males of their species


    7. Also because many kids get raised in two different households, they can grow up angry and uncomfortable with their surroundings and then if parents become combative, they will lose


    8. As is the case with other primate species, when a lemur reaches the age of maturity it may become combative with its owner


    9. a slice of the combative mind-set of Paul’s critics:


    10. � Browning finally looked back at the now much less combative Muller

    11. Hvitserk and Sigurd swapped places, the eldest brother being keen to have a little combative fun while the troll was still able to fight back (and the middle brother keen to have a little fun while the Amazon was still intent on squirming around on the sand beneath him)


    12. Narcissists are disruptive, counter-dependent, combative, and resent authority (rebellious and contumacious)


    13. His instinctively combative nature meant that even the Election Commission would not be spared his ire (as another CEC, J


    14. almost combative attitude, but she didn’t


    15. The other side of that coin, of course, is the natural conclusion that civilization has to be accompanied by a combative spirit— aggression leads to civilization? Or vice versa? Chicken or egg, the result doesn’t change any, does it? Whatever the scientific differences are, the Ainu of Japan, Australia’s Abos, African Bushmen and maybe even the Inuit of the frozen north are not the same type of humans as the other so-called Indian-types, at least as far as killing other humans goes


    16. This tendency to appraise thwartedness, but move towards helplessness again shows we are striving to be more cooperative and less combative


    17. if the economy is brutish, the education system will be combative, hierarchical and privilege based


    18. Gaming can create communities of questers, from cooperative to combative


    19. Was that him? A strong-jawed, classically handsome man with a pleased-with-himself smirk and eyes that seemed to look straight into Madeline’s in a combative, bordering on aggressive way


    20. Godwyn suddenly remembered Thomas having just such an intense, combative conversation ten years ago, on the day he arrived here

    21. His brother’s faced reddened and he bit his lip as if to restrain himself from a combative reply


    22. Although combative, she was good-hearted, and Caris liked her


    23. Formerly she had felt that he regarded her with indifference and irony, and so had shrunk into herself as she did with others and had shown him only the combative side of her nature; but now he seemed to be trying to understand the most intimate places of her heart, and, mistrustfully at first but afterwards gratefully, she let him see the hidden, kindly sides of her character


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    Synonyms for "combative"

    battleful bellicose combative agonistic agonistical contentious disputatious disputative litigious warlike hostile militant belligerent offensive

    "combative" definitions

    inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits


    striving to overcome in argument


    having or showing a ready disposition to fight