Definition of "assaultive" []

• Inclined to or suggestive of violent attack: "The reduction of cinema to assaultive images ... has produced a disincarnated, lightweight cinema that doesn't demand anyone's full attention” ( Susan Sontag). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "“Rather, it is our position that use be restricted to only those situations where the individual is combative — sometimes called assaultive — or poses a significant risk of death or grievous bodily harm to the officer, the subject, themselves, or the public.”"
• "If you hate mint in perfume "assaultive" is going to come to mind.."
• "Others followed with "assaultive" anger that "did not, in any way, invite engagement, or mutual analysis, or thinking through a problem together.""