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truculency
noun as in belligerence
Strong matches
- abhorrence
- aggression
- animosity
- animus
- antipathy
- aversion
- bellicoseness
- bellicosity
- belligerency
- bitterness
- combativeness
- contentiousness
- detestation
- disaffection
- enmity
- estrangement
- grudge
- hatred
- hostility
- malevolence
- malice
- militance
- militancy
- opposition
- pugnacity
- rancor
- resentment
- spite
- spleen
- truculence
- unfriendliness
- venom
- virulence
- war
Weak matches
noun as in cruelty
Strong matches
- animality
- barbarism
- barbarity
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- brutality
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fierceness
- heartlessness
- inhumanity
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malice
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- persecution
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- savagery
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- torture
- truculence
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Weak matches
Example Sentences
"What are you doing on this property?" he demanded with a truculency that made me dislike him instantly and completely.
"I don't know as I want to," the mason replied, with a touch of his former truculency.
For them the old ethnocentric jealousy, vanity, truculency, and ambition are the strongest elements in patriotism.
The truculency and the menace of that eye were gone.
Sacheverell's "bloody flag and banner of defiance," and other High-flying truculencies, had furnished him with the main basis of his Shortest Way with the Dissenters.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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