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101terroristic — Synonyms and related words: Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Carbonarist, Castroist, Castroite, Communist, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobinic, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau Mau, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, Vietcong, abusive, agin the government, anarchic,… …
102terrorizing — Synonyms and related words: abusive, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, comminatory, denunciatory, fear inspiring, foreboding, hectoring, imminent, intimidating, lowering, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous,… …
103threatening — Synonyms and related words: about to be, abusive, alarming, already in sight, apocalyptic, approaching, at hand, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, brewing, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, close, close at… …
104tumultuous — Synonyms and related words: agitated, anarchic, angry, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, bullying, chaotic, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery,… …
105bluster — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. bravado; braggadocio, boasting; bullying, hectoring; front. v. i. swagger; play the bully, hector, vapor; roar (See loudness). See insolence, threat. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. rant, rave, brag, boast,… …
106insolence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Rudeness Nouns 1. (overbearing behavior) insolence, arrogance; hauteur, haughtiness, airs; overbearance; presumption, assertiveness, bravado, pomposity, snobbery; defiance. 2. (impertinent behavior)… …
107Insolence — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Undue assumption of superiority. < N PARAG:Insolence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 insolence insolence Sgm: N 1 haughtiness haughtiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 arrogance arrogance airs Sgm: N 1 overbearance overbearance …
108hector — hec|tor [ˈhektə US ər] v [I and T] [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: Hector a brave soldier in the ancient Greek story of Troy] to speak to someone in an angry threatening way ▪ a hectoring tone of voice …
109hector — late 14c., a valiant warrior, 1650s as slang for a blustering, turbulent, pervicacious, noisy fellow [Johnson], Heck for short, both in reference to the provocative character of Hektor, Trojan hero, oldest son of Priam and Hecuba, in the Iliad.… …
110jawbone — (n.) mid 15c., from JAW (Cf. jaw) (n.) + BONE (Cf. bone) (n.). Hence jawboning lecturing, hectoring, a term associated with the U.S. Lyndon Johnson presidential administration (1966); Cf. JAW (Cf. jaw) (v.) …
