belligerence, pugnacity, peevishness, abrasiveness, feistiness, arrogance, churlishness, cussedness, obduracy, contrariness, obstinacy, petulance, imperiousness, bellicosity, combativeness, surliness, haughtiness, stubbornness, pompousness, insouciance, joylessness, pusillanimity, boastfulness, insolence, grumpiness, impudence, diffidence, pushiness, superciliousness, parsimony, resentfulness, pragmatism, irascibility, obnoxiousness, brashness, rabidity, prickliness, imperturbability, forwardness, loquacity, tactlessness, chumminess, nonchalance, defensiveness, irrationality, ingenuousness, callowness, cravenness, ineffectuality, tetchiness, vehemence, bravado, boisterousness, bombast, indefatigability, bluster, pithiness, stridency, curtness, brusqueness, sangfroid, boorishness, crudity, condescension, spitefulness, inscrutability, toughness, priggishness, gregariousness, sunniness, spinelessness, ruthlessness, wryness, mischievousness, touchiness, volubility, acerbity, blitheness, forcefulness, irrepressibility, garrulousness, meanness, taciturnity, ungainliness, boldness, machismo, jocularity, amiability, politeness, officiousness, crustiness, flamboyance, obstreperousness, punctiliousness, indifference, indirectness, pedantry, capriciousness, egocentricity, gaucherie, gruffness, standoffishness, unwillingness, brutality, bluntness, hesitancy, fierceness, impulsiveness, intransigence, aggressiveness, docility, ferocity, frankness, hardihood

contentiousness, quarrelsomeness

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