belligerently

Adverb

belligerently (comparative more belligerently, superlative most belligerently)

1. In a belligerent manner; with aggressive hostility.
   • They swaggered unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes.1896, Stephen Crane, chapter 11, in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, New York: Appleton, pages 88–89
   • “How’d you get a job like this?” she asked.
     “A fella got to eat,” he began; and then, belligerently, “A fella got a right to eat.”1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 26, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1962, page 512