1. in a bellicose contentious manner; - Example: "`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively" [syn: combatively, scrappily]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
combatively
adv 1: in a bellicose contentious manner; "`Don't trespass onto
my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively" [syn:
combatively, scrappily]