He is portrayed as belligerent, domineering, sometimes hostile and stubborn like his daughter. Begin resented his being portrayed as a belligerent dissident. Blackwell had doubts about Jex-Blake and thought that she was dangerous, belligerent, and tactless. But according to Sharaf, they came to consider Reich as paranoid and belligerent. The description of Dao as "disruptive" and "belligerent" contradicted passenger descriptions of the incident. The animals are belligerent, unpredictable, and most dangerous. The ill-mannered, belligerent and volatile cook works as a servant to the Duchess. They can provide a presence that may preclude adventurous actions by a potential belligerent. It was the clearest expression of intention made by any of the belligerent nations. The mood in England grew increasingly belligerent towards the Dutch. He is not the sovereign in the territory held in belligerent occupation. He also inherited an ongoing succession of occasionally belligerent dynastic disputes with his Polish cousin. He is also given to belligerent fits of anger. However, they find the commissioner mortally wounded by recently belligerent natives. The "New York Sun" then described Roosevelt as "irrepressible, belligerent, and enthusiastic".