truculent
adjective
aggressively hostile; belligerent.
truculently
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a word derived from
truculent.
Example Sentences
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The reaction from the woman, played by Susannah Perkins, who will turn out to be the play’s Antigone, is fiery: “Is it even about her?” she asks truculently.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
“Do I have to talk to you?” he says truculently to Tay, unwilling to do anything more than drive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025
It was all part of a learning process whereby I eventually concluded that people who truculently parade their skepticism are actually the most gullible people on earth.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
His horror of homosexuality – intensified by his suspicions about the reasons for his eldest son's suicide – resembled that of the religious fundamentalists whom he so truculently denounced.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013
They even defended him the night Colonel Cathcart tried to throw him out of the officers’ club again, Yossarian rising truculently to intervene and Nately shouting out, “Yossarian!” to restrain him.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
