Synonyms and Antonyms of truculent
- die-hard fans who became truculent and violent after their team's loss
antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-tempered
acidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, stroppy [British], surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspish
- a theater critic who was notorious for his titanically truculent reviews
affronting, insulting, offending, offensive, outrageous, outraging
coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, foulmouthed, gross, indecent, nasty, obscene, potty-mouthed, vulgar
contemptuous, disdainful, scornful
defamatory, libelous (or libellous), scandalous, slanderous
maligning, traducing, vilifying