combativeness 的定义
- ready or inclined to fight; pugnacious: He displayed a most unpleasant, combative attitude.
combativeness 近义词
belligerence
更多combativeness例句
- It’s a sweet encapsulation of the pair’s relationship, which is mostly combative except when they’re sticking up for each other.
- A defensive and combative Ghislaine Maxwell, the onetime partner of Jeffrey Epstein, insisted in long-sealed court testimony made public Thursday that she had no knowledge of the deceased financier having sexual contact with minors.
- However, they revealed Maxwell to have been a combative and loyal defender of Epstein, insistent at every turn that she was aware of no misdeeds by him and refusing to concede even basic information about their interactions.
- Erdogan’s combative response to the clashes, which saw him attack the Armenian leadership and offer full support to Azerbaijan, marks a break with previous rounds of fighting in the region.
- Blunt and combative, Sargent was one of the executives at the center of the price-fixing scandal over ebooks a decade ago, but more recently had turned his fire on libraries.
- “We know how to fight, but we need weapons,” said Duarte, whose combative spirit remains undiminished by age.
- “I think if you get combative and overly objecting, people are going to begin to get suspicious,” Edwards told me.
- When Sara took her case before a panel of faculty members, she said she found them combative and insensitive.
- As Gondry asks Chomsky about his childhood, the answer soon becomes clear: a skeptical, inquisitive, combative mind.
- Like Socrates, Street Epistemologists are to understand themselves as inquisitive teachers, not combative lecturers.
- During the reign of Mr. Cousins there was a rupture at the place, and many combative letters were written with reference to it.
- Dick's rather combative look changed instantly into shamefacedness, and he shook hands again.
- The little woman was so combative and incisive that this always seemed a necessary precaution on the part of that gentleman.
- Many a woman is antagonistic, is combative, because she is forced into such a position, not because she herself desires it.
- It is combative—in the sense that it shapes nature's forces—and it calls for a sense of artistry in its practitioners.