Tom is testy and truculent.
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Truculent
//ˈtɹʌk.jʊ.lənt//
Synonyms for "truculent" (161 found)
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36 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- агресивен adj (eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict)
- войнствен adj (eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict)
- жесток adj (cruel or savage)
- предизвикателен adj (defiant or uncompromising)
Catalan
1 entries- truculent adj (cruel or savage)
Dutch
4 entries- agressief adj (cruel or savage)
- dodelijk adj (deadly or destructive)
- kwaadaardig adj (cruel or savage)
- twistziek adj (eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict)
French
1 entries- agressif adj (cruel or savage)
Georgian
3 entries- დაუნდობელი adj (deadly or destructive)
- მტრული adj (defiant or uncompromising)
- სასტიკი adj (cruel or savage)
German
4 entries- aufsässig adj (eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict)
- barbarisch adj (cruel or savage)
- grausam adj (cruel or savage)
- grob adj (cruel or savage)
Irish
1 entries- colgach adj (eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict)
Māori
2 entries- muha adj (cruel or savage)
- tainanakia adj (cruel or savage)
Portuguese
1 entries- truculento adj (cruel or savage)
Russian
2 entries- вызыва́ющий adj (defiant or uncompromising)
- жесто́кий adj (cruel or savage)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- razoran adj (deadly or destructive)
- surov adj (cruel or savage)
Spanish
2 entries- truculento adj (cruel or savage)
- truculento adj (deadly or destructive)
Sample sentences
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Tim's truculent nature has made Lisa hesitant to say anything critical to him, for fear that it will cause a fight.
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His eyes were truculent again, his lips in the pout that had been on them when he had entered.
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There is—in world affairs—a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
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