aggress

Example Sentences

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For reasons beyond my understanding, Cross, an aspiring doctor, looks up to Rutkovsky, a flinty old timer with a propensity to aggress when he feels sad or mad or basically anything.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

“We have superior legal title to all the land west of the Missouri River that you and/or big oil seek to trespass and aggress on,” Bear Runner wrote in the letter.

From Slate • May 3, 2019

“I admired her. I saw her films. I was trying to help her. If Laura is accusing me of trying to aggress her or kill her, she’s crazy.”

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2016

And the actual aggress element of regular aggression doesn't have to be that aggressive.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2011

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah