get on someone's grill
pugnacity
hostile
pugnaciously
violence
force
aggressionist
come out swinging
gladiator
aggressiveness
aggression
aggressivity
ingressiveness
make a stink
stabby
raise hell
raise a stink
hostilely
belligerently
tactical
overaggression
bantam
antisocial
befoe
abomination
sharp
let someone have it
bully
truculency
in-your-face
chimp out
truculence
counteract
brass
cringe
face
cheek
nerve
boldness
aggressive
enturbulate
opposition
antagonization
officiousness
spite
counteraggressive
underhanding
intrusiveness
offensivity
opponent
opposing
meddlesomeness
go snake
deadly
bitter
cheek up
accosting
harrying
militance
cheek up to
bare one's teeth
personal
traverse
interesting
soft-pedal
indelicacy
self-assertion
bluster
smash-mouth
terrify
assaultive
affection
passive aggressor
buffet
aggress
face down
go to bat
have one's back up
confrontational
instigate
emphatic
bestand
adversarial
belligerence
boil over
menace
belligerency
clear the air
forceful
moither
scrappy
fighting words
defensive
give against
antagonistic
affrontment
passive-aggressively

English words for 'To act in an aggressive or hostile towards'

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