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1
an inclination to fight or quarrel
- a congenital truculence that resulted in his spending a significant amount of time in the principal's office
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- acidity,
- biliousness,
- captiousness,
- crankiness,
- crossness,
- disagreeableness,
- fractiousness,
- fretfulness,
- grouchiness,
- grumpiness,
- huffiness,
- irascibility,
- irascibleness,
- irritability,
- irritableness,
- orneriness,
- peevishness,
- pettishness,
- petulance,
- querulousness,
- rudeness,
- surliness,
- testiness,
- waspishness
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2
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others
- the sergeant's truculence was revealed when she made the recruits run even further in the heat
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“Truculence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truculence. Accessed 24 Jul. 2021.
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The first known use of truculence was circa 1727
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