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- die-hard fans who became truculent and violent after their team's loss
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- 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,
- stroppy
- [British],
- surly,
- testy,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- waspish
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- a theater critic who was notorious for his titanically truculent reviews
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- coarse,
- crude,
- dirty,
- filthy,
- foul,
- foulmouthed,
- gross,
- indecent,
- nasty,
- obscene,
- potty-mouthed,
- vulgar
- defamatory,
- libelous
- (or libellous),
- scandalous,
- slanderous
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- played the role of a disturbed and truculent villain
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The first known use of truculent was circa 1540
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