truculence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: truc=u=lence

CIDE DICTIONARY

truculence, n. [L. truculentia.].

 The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

truculence

abruptness, aggression, aggressiveness, animality, antagonism, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, bearishness, beastliness, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, bluntness, boorishness, brashness, brusqueness, brusquerie, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, chauvinism, churlishness, combativeness, contentiousness, cruelness, cruelty, crustiness, curtness, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, fight, gruffness, harshness, hostility, inhumaneness, inhumanity, jingoism, martialism, militancy, militarism, nastiness, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, roughness, ruthlessness, saber rattling, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, sharpness, shortness, surliness, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, vandalism, viciousness, violence, wanton cruelty, warmongering, warpath

ROGET THESAURUS

truculence

Malevolence

N malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.