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Bully

A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Aggressor 76% connected

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

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Assailant 76% connected

Assailing; attacking.

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Assaulter 76% connected

One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant.

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Attacker 76% connected

One who attacks.

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Blarney 76% connected

Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.

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Cajole 76% connected

To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.

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Coax 76% connected

To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.

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Hood 76% connected

State; condition.

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Hoodlum 76% connected

A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow.

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Intimidate 76% connected

To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.

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Inveigle 76% connected

To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.

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Palaver 76% connected

Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

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Punk 76% connected

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

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Thug 76% connected

One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearl…

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Tough 76% connected

Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of an…

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Wheedle 76% connected

To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.

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Manner of action 2

Domineer 76% connected

To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or hau…

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Tyrannize 76% connected

To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or require…

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Muscle 76% connected

An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.

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Skin 76% connected

The external membranous integument of an animal.

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Synonym 17

Browbeat 92% connected

of Browbeat

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Bullyrag 92% connected

Same as Bullirag.

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Corking 92% connected

of Cork

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Cracking 92% connected

of Crack

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Dandy 92% connected

One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Great 92% connected

Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, lengt…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hector 92% connected

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Keen 92% connected

Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Neat 92% connected

Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.

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Old 92% connected

Open country.

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Peachy 92% connected

Resembling a peach or peaches.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rowdy 92% connected

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.

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Ruffian 92% connected

A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Smashing 92% connected

of Smash

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Swagger 92% connected

To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swell 92% connected

To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the le…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tough 92% connected

Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of an…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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