combative

Etymology

combat + -ive

adj

1. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
   Their combative conduct leads to many problems.
   He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession. 2013, The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy
   Salvation arrived - as it so often has in this nerve-shredding campaign - through Dykes, the combative striker. October 12 2021, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport