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Having or showing an eagerness to fight:
bellicose, belligerent, contentious, hostile, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike. See attack
Inclined to act in a hostile way:
aggressive, belligerent, contentious, hostile, militant. See attack, attitude
Given to arguing:
argumentative, contentious, disputatious, eristic, litigious, polemic, polemical, quarrelsome, scrappy. See conflict

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