Words similar to combative

Example sentences for: combative

How can you use “combative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In short, China's "distinctive" edge lies in combative, Machiavellian, mud-slinging, blustery, self-righteous politicians.
All told, though women as a group are less combative than men, they are not wholly averse to combat.
USA Today leads with last night's Democratic and Republican New Hampshire debates, which it describes as "personal and combative."
Figure skating wasn't a real sport, comradely and combative like children's ice hockey, which we played in boring skates and unlovely clothes on a frozen pond.
"To the inexpert," he writes in one place, "footnotes look like deep root systems, solid and fixed; to the connoisseur, however, they reveal themselves as anthills, swarming with constructive and combative activity."