assaultively

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1. In an assaultive manner.

   Driving back to the city, through the assaultively scenic and demographically uniform little towns, they were silent.

   2006, Deborah Eisenberg, “Some Other, Better Otto”, in Twilight of the Superheroes, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 53

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   […] if we can train “naturally” antagonistic animals, such as dogs and cats or cats and mice, to live together peacefully—which we definitely can—we can also encourage “naturally” antagonistic humans to behave much less assaultively.

   1977, Albert Ellis, chapter 12, in Anger: How to Live With and Without It, Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, published 1997, page 211