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truculencenoun an inclination to fight or quarrela congenital truculence that resulted in his spending a significant amount of time in the principal's office aggression, aggressiveness, assaultiveness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, defiance, disputatiousness, feistiness, fight, militance, militancy, militantness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, scrappiness antagonism, fierceness, hostility, hyperaggressiveness, unfriendlinessimperialism, jingoism, militarismacidity, 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 nonaggression, pacifism antiaggression, anti-imperialism, antimilitarismaffability, amiability, amicability, benevolence, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, graciousness, pleasantness, sociabilitygentleness, kindliness, mildnessamenability, complaisance, placability disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on othersthe sergeant's truculence was revealed when she made the recruits run even further in the heat atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, brutality, cruelness, cruelty, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, viciousness, wantonness hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingnessfellness, ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimnessbloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinitycattiness, despitefulness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulnesshardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmthcharitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity ca. 1727 |