truculent

IPA: trˈʌkjʌɫʌnt

Examples of "truculent" in Sentences

She would show up in a hard hat, like some truculent crusader.
The general manager of the Leafs has famously stated he wants a "truculent" and
A kind of truculent honesty which he could never dissemble for long, always stood in his way.
Letter, of the "truculent" and "unhappy" national symbol presiding over the entrance to Salem‘s
A kind of truculent question was in his eyes -- as much as to say, "Now then, what do you make of it all?
Fischer's increasingly bizarre, truculent behavior alienated friends and family and landed him in serious legal trouble.
To interpret him according to this image -- a womanish figure in a long robe and a turban, with big bare arms and a dramatic pose -- would be to think of him as a kind of truculent sultana.
They are of the gloomy, razor-bearing variety; full of short-sighted lies and prompt dishonesties, amusing always, but truculent and tricky; and the sunny sweetness which we all know in the Negro character is not there.
As Mrs. Dinks made no reply, and assumed the appearance of a lady who, for her own private and inscrutable reasons, had concluded to forego the prerogative of speech for evermore, while she fanned herself calmly, and regarded Fanny with a kind of truculent calmness that seemed to say,