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as in aggressive
feeling or displaying eagerness to fight
die-hard fans who became truculent and violent after their team's loss
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2
as in abusive
marked by harsh insulting language
a theater critic who was notorious for his titanically truculent reviews
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3
as in brutal
having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others
played the role of a disturbed and truculent villain
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Mexico City is so inept, so compromised by the cartels, and so truculent that joint military action seems a pipe dream.
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Chinese forces have adopted a truculent approach to prosecuting those claims.
—Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2023
The truculent trio are all using the same tired bingo card of victimization politics that Donald Trump keeps in his breast pocket.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
The truculent and diffident teen-ager, all floppy hair and hormones, disruptively acts out his frustrations, while nonetheless becoming a good big brother to the two girls; meanwhile, his sparks of playful flirtation with Anne ignite an uncontrollable conflagration of desire.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Chinese forces have adopted a truculent approach to prosecuting those claims.
—Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2023
The truculent trio are all using the same tired bingo card of victimization politics that Donald Trump keeps in his breast pocket.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
The truculent and diffident teen-ager, all floppy hair and hormones, disruptively acts out his frustrations, while nonetheless becoming a good big brother to the two girls; meanwhile, his sparks of playful flirtation with Anne ignite an uncontrollable conflagration of desire.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
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“Truculent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truculent. Accessed 3 Aug. 2024.
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