assaultive🔊

Confrontational; tending or seeming to assault; characterized by assault.

💬 Quotations

For the most part, his rages in the past have been directed at authority figures—father, brother, Army sergeant, state parole officer—and have led to violent assaultive behavior on several occasions.

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

(psychiatry, criminology) A person who assaults others.

💬 Quotations

This man is not only very very sick, but I believe he is definitely a Potential Assaultive.

Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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