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truculence
Synonyms and Antonyms of truculence
- a truculence that resulted in his spending a good amount of time in the principal's office
antagonism, fierceness, hostility, hyperaggressiveness, unfriendliness
imperialism, jingoism, militarism
acidity, biliousness, captiousness, crankiness, crossness, disagreeableness, fractiousness, fretfulness, grouchiness, grumpiness, huffiness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, irritableness, orneriness, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, querulousness, rudeness, surliness, testiness, waspishness
chip on one's shoulder
- The sergeant's truculence was revealed when she made the recruits run even farther in the heat wave.
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