All 4 Uses of
truculent
in
Catch-22
- His round white cap was cocked at an insolent tilt, his hands were clenched, and he glared at everything in the room with a scowl of injured truculence.†
Chpt 18
- 'You never trust me with information,' he whined truculently.†
Chpt 20 *
- 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.†
Chpt 25
- Two with fleshy physiques advanced truculently until they spied the look of mean dislike and hostility on Dobbs and Dunbar and noticed that Dobbs was still swinging like a two-handed club the wrought-iron ash stand he had used to smash things in the sitting room.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(truculent) defiantly aggressive