Both Uses of
truculent
in
Dubliners
- His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.†
Chpt 1 *
- I too listened; but there was no sound in the house: and I knew that the old priest was lying still in his coffin as we had seen him, solemn and truculent in death, an idle chalice on his breast.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(truculent) defiantly aggressive