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barbarous
Characteristic of barbarians; primitive or lacking in civilization
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  1. Characteristic of barbarians; primitive or lacking in civilization
  2. Characterized by savagery; very cruel:
  3. Cruel; brutal
brutal
Extremely ruthless or cruel.
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  1. Extremely ruthless or cruel.
  2. Plain and direct, although distressing in effect
  3. Disagreeably precise or penetrating:
ferocious
Characterized by or showing extreme aggressiveness or violence:
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  1. Characterized by or showing extreme aggressiveness or violence:
  2. Extremely powerful or destructive:
  3. Fierce; savage; violently cruel
harsh
Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:
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  1. Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:
  2. Expressing displeasure or disapproval:
  3. Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
mean
Miserly; stingy:
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  1. Miserly; stingy:
  2. (Slang) Hard to cope with; difficult or troublesome:
  3. Ignoble; base:
scathing
Searing; withering; harsh or caustic
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  1. Searing; withering; harsh or caustic
  2. Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical:
  3. Harmful or painful; injurious.
bellicose
Of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight or quarrel; warlike
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  1. Of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight or quarrel; warlike
  2. Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament.
belligerent
At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
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  1. At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
  2. Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
  3. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
combative
Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
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  1. Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
  2. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
  3. Eager or disposed to fight.
contentious
Involving or causing contention; controversial:
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  1. Involving or causing contention; controversial:
  2. Of or marked by contention
  3. Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
hostile
Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
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  1. Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy:
  3. Being in opposition; opposed:
militant
Ready and willing to fight; esp., vigorous or aggressive in supporting or promoting a cause
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  1. Ready and willing to fight; esp., vigorous or aggressive in supporting or promoting a cause
  2. Fighting or warring.
  3. Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the service of a cause:
pugnacious
Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative
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  1. Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative
  2. Combative in nature.
quarrelsome
Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling.
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  1. Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling.
  2. Given to quarreling; contentious.
  3. Marked by quarreling.
scrappy
Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
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  1. Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
  2. Full of fighting spirit.
  3. (Informal) Fond of fighting, arguing, etc.; aggressive
warlike
Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
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  1. Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
  2. Fit for, fond of, or ready for war; bellicose; martial
  3. Hostile and belligerent.
acerbic
Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:
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  1. Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:
  2. Sharp, bitter, or harsh in temper, language, etc.
  3. Sour or bitter tasting; acid.
acid
Any of a class of compounds that form hydrogen ions when dissolved in water, and whose aqueous solutions react with bases and certain metals to form salts. Acids turn blue litmus paper red and have a pH of less than 7. Their aqueous solutions have a sour taste.
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  1. Any of a class of compounds that form hydrogen ions when dissolved in water, and whose aqueous solutions react with bases and certain metals to form salts. Acids turn blue litmus paper red and have a pH of less than 7. Their aqueous solutions have a sour taste.
  2. (Geology) Containing a large proportion of silica:
  3. Having the characteristics of an acid.
acidic
(Chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
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  1. (Chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
  2. Tending to form an acid.
  3. Acid
acrid
Caustic in language or tone:
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  1. Caustic in language or tone:
  2. Bitter or sarcastic in speech, etc.
  3. Sharp, bitter, stinging, or irritating to the taste or smell
astringent
(Medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
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  1. (Medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
  2. A substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues, resulting in decreased flow of blood or other secretions.
  3. Sharp, caustic, severe.
biting
Cutting; sharp
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  1. Cutting; sharp
  2. Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
  3. Sarcastic; caustic
caustic
Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
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  1. Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
  2. Given to making caustic remarks:
  3. Cutting or sarcastic in utterance; biting
corrosive
Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
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  1. Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
  2. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
  3. Bitingly sarcastic; cutting; acid
cutting
Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
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  1. Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
  2. Capable of or designed for incising, shearing, or severing:
  3. Sharply penetrating; piercing:
mordacious
Given to biting; biting.
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  1. Given to biting; biting.
  2. Biting, sharp, acrid, or caustic
mordant
Acting as a mordant
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  1. Acting as a mordant
  2. Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
  3. Biting, cutting, caustic, or sarcastic
pungent
Pointed:
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  1. Pointed:
  2. Producing a sharp sensation of taste or smell; acrid
  3. Penetrating, biting, or caustic:
scathing
Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical:
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  1. Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical:
  2. Harmful or painful; injurious.
  3. Searing; withering; harsh or caustic
sharp
Briskly or keenly cold and cutting:
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  1. Briskly or keenly cold and cutting:
  2. Having clear form and detail:
  3. Strongly affecting the senses of smell and taste:
slashing
(Informal) Huge
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  1. (Informal) Huge
  2. Severe; merciless; violent
  3. Bitingly critical or satiric:
stinging
Having the capacity to sting.
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  1. Having the capacity to sting.
trenchant
Forceful and clear; penetrating:
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  1. Forceful and clear; penetrating:
  2. (Archaic) Cutting; sharp
  3. Caustic; cutting:
vitriolic
(Chemistry): Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste.
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  1. (Chemistry): Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste.
  2. Extremely biting or caustic; sharp and bitter
  3. Bitterly scathing; caustic: vitriolic criticism
barbarous
Characteristic of barbarians; primitive or lacking in civilization
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  1. Characteristic of barbarians; primitive or lacking in civilization
  2. Characterized by savagery; very cruel:
  3. Cruel; brutal
bestial
Like a beast in qualities or behavior; brutish or savage; brutal, coarse, vile, etc.
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  1. Like a beast in qualities or behavior; brutish or savage; brutal, coarse, vile, etc.
  2. Of beasts or lower animals
  3. Marked by brutality or depravity; brutal or depraved:
cruel
Causing, or of a kind to cause, pain, distress, etc.
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  1. Causing, or of a kind to cause, pain, distress, etc.
  2. Deliberately seeking to inflict pain and suffering; enjoying others' suffering; without mercy or pity
  3. Disposed to inflict pain or suffering:
fell
Fierce; terrible; cruel
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  1. Fierce; terrible; cruel
  2. Dire; sinister:
  3. Capable of destroying; lethal:
feral
Having returned to a wild condition
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  1. Having returned to a wild condition
  2. Having returned to an untamed state from domestication:
  3. Savage; fierce
ferocious
Extremely powerful or destructive:
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  1. Extremely powerful or destructive:
  2. Extremely aggressive or violent:
  3. Fierce; savage; violently cruel
fierce
Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
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  1. Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
  2. Intense in activity or feeling; vigorous or ardent:
  3. Extremely powerful or destructive:
inhuman
Lacking kindness, pity, or compassion; cruel or indifferent:
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  1. Lacking kindness, pity, or compassion; cruel or indifferent:
  2. Not of ordinary human nature, form, or character:
  3. Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
savage
Fierce; ferocious; untamed
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  1. Fierce; ferocious; untamed
  2. Without civilization; primitive; barbarous
  3. Cruel; pitiless
vicious
Disposed to violent or destructive behavior:
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  1. Disposed to violent or destructive behavior:
  2. Severe, powerful, or intense; fierce:
  3. Extremely violent or injurious; cruel:
wolfish
Akin to the characteristics or habits of a wolf; lupine.
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  1. Akin to the characteristics or habits of a wolf; lupine.
  2. Fierce or rapacious.
  3. Fierce; savage; menacing.
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  • They behaved in the most high-handed, brutal and truculent manner.

  • But, if his truculent character was thus early displayed, his abilities were no less conspicuous; and, though still in his teens, he became lecturer on the Humanities at Tournai, whence, after but a short stay, he returned to Paris, to take his degree of doctor of canon law, and become regent of the college of Navarre.

  • The most savage and truculent of the tribes are those who live in the forest regions; the most advanced in culture, the dwellers in the plains.

  • There is not a pass of any great importance, nor a river of any great difficulty, to be encountered from end to end, but the route is flanked on the north between Kandahar and Girishk by the Zamindawar hills, containing the most truculent and fanatical clans of all the Southern Afghan tribes.

  • Zobair, who complained in a somewhat truculent letter that Moawiya's slaves had been guilty of trespassing.

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