He had, for some reason, assumed a belligerent manner.

They'd sit a few minutes, and then they'd get up and stand by the door with their arms folded, in a kind of belligerent manner.

His hysterically belligerent manner was back, "I offered him more than anybody else did.

Dancers kept moving around chairs in a belligerent manner to taped music by Alain Mallet.

Thompson would instigate events himself, often in a prankish or belligerent manner, and then document both his actions and those of others.

Heath grunted with satisfaction, and his belligerent manner at once disappeared.

He had a weather-beaten face, bushy eyebrows, piercing gray eyes, and a belligerent manner.

The girl stood swaying slightly, but she stared about her in a belligerent manner, as though challenging someone to answer her.

Civil Air Patrol (despite the name operated armed aircraft in a belligerent manner as a military organization)

The sensitivity that is evident in his paintings was concealed in his person behind an authoritarian and at times belligerent manner.