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gladiatorialadjective feeling or displaying eagerness to fightnot a reasoned discussion but a shouting match between gladiatorial pundits from opposite ends of the political spectrum aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, disputatious, feisty, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-temperedacidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, stroppy(British), surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspishsavage, viciousbattling, fighting, warring on the warpath nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, unbelligerent, uncombative, uncontentious anti-imperialist, antimilitarist, unwarlikeaffable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, complaisant, conciliatory, cordial, easygoing, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, ingratiating, kindhearted, obliging, pleasant, sociablecalm, quiet, relaxed, serene, tranquilbenign, gentle, kindly, mild |