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defiantly aggressive- My friends had assembled again, a far more somber, truculent group than before.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- I want payment; that's what I want," he said truculently.Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
- Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- Nor was she pleased by the High Sparrow's endless truculence and ingratitude.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- "You'll perhaps batten down your hatches till you're spoke to, my friend," cried Silver truculently to this speaker.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
- She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
- (He turns and sees ROPER excited and truculent) ROPER But sir— MORE Now listen, Will.Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
- They all featured a truculent, slightly geeky anti-hero.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- These two are also of the same position, but the Count impressed me as a man of somewhat truculent disposition.Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
- He was still clutching the sword of Gryffindor, and wore a strange look: half truculent, half intrigued.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- "Where have you been?" he demanded truculently.Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
- CREON Thou art as sullen in thy yielding mood As in thine anger thou wast truculent.Sophocles -- Oedipus the King
- 'You never trust me with information,' he whined truculently.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- But he was refused confirmation by an increasingly truculent Senate.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- It was as if truculent Anys was beside me, whispering impatiently in my ear.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- A truculent little budgie waited until I nearly trod on her before flitting away.Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
- Triceratops: the size and gray color of an elephant, with the truculent stance of a rhino.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- I asked Mami truculently.Junot Diaz -- Drown
- This beastly, incorrigible truculence comes from your mother, Hera, whom I keep but barely in my power, say what I will.Homer -- The Iliad
- His manner is so threatening that she retreats as he comes at her truculently, driving her down the yard.George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara