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truculent
Synonyms and Antonyms of truculent
- die-hard fans who became truculent and violent after their team's loss
antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-tempered
acidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspish
on the warpath
- a theater critic who was notorious for his titanically truculent reviews
affronting, insulting, offending, offensive, outrageous, outraging
coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, foulmouthed, gross, indecent, nasty, obscene, potty-mouthed, vulgar
contemptuous, disdainful, scornful
defamatory, libelous (or libellous), scandalous, slanderous
maligning, traducing, vilifying
- played the role of a disturbed and truculent villain
hard-hearted, ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted, unfeeling
bloodthirsty, cutthroat, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine
catty, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vindictive
draconian, draconic, hardhanded, harsh, heavy-handed, oppressive
red in tooth and claw
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