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truculent
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  • He was still clutching the sword of Gryffindor, and wore a strange look: half truculent, half intrigued.  (source)
  • Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance.  (source)
    Truculently = in a defiantly aggressive manner
  • The boldest and most truculent had been hanged, the rest put to work.  (source)
    truculent = defiantly aggressive
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  • A truculent little budgie waited until I nearly trod on her before flitting away.†  (source)
  • "No, there hasn't been any one else," she answered almost truculently.  (source)
    truculently = in a defiantly aggressive manner
  • His only weapons against her were silence, truculence; he cultivated an occasional brooding intensity.†  (source)
  • With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears by the fierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens careful of their safety against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings.  (source)
    truculency = defiantly aggressive
  • A truculent gnome refused to yield.†  (source)
  • I asked Mami truculently.†  (source)
  • The truculence went out of the boy and a magnanimity took its place.†  (source)
  • They all featured a truculent, slightly geeky anti-hero.†  (source)
  • 'You never trust me with information,' he whined truculently.†  (source)
  • This beastly, incorrigible truculence comes from your mother, Hera, whom I keep but barely in my power, say what I will.†  (source)
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