truculent personality

aggressive personality

TRANSLATION

truculent = wild, widerspenstig, trotzig

STATISTICS

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What do Mountain Rescue Teams Fear Most? TRUCULENT Teenage Girls. Thirty nine schoolgirls in their uniforms had to be rescued last Wednesday in the Scottish Cairngorms, near Aviemore. According to BBC news, the group got lost in the mist after reaching the top a 2,500ft hill on Wednesday.

(BBC News - July 1st 2004)

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truculent

1. Disposed to fight; pugnacious.
2. Expressing bitter opposition; scathing: a truculent speech against the new government.
3. Disposed to or exhibiting violence or destructiveness; fierce.

From the Latin truculentus, from trux, truc-, fierce.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

SYNONYMS
abusive, aggressive, antagonistic, bad-tempered, barbarous, bellicose, browbeating, brutal, bullying, caustic, combative, contentious, contumelious, cowing, cross, defiant, ferocious, fierce, frightening, harsh, hateful, hostile, inhuman, inhumane, intimidating, invective, mean, militant, mordacious, mordant, obstreperous, opprobrious, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rude, savage, scathing, scrappy, scurrilous, sharp, sullen, terrifying, terrorizing, trenchant, violent, vituperative

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