Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A disposition or apparent disposition to fight, especially fiercely.
- n. Ferociously cruel actions or behavior.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being truculent; savageness of manners and appearance; ferociousness; ferocity.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being truculent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness
Etymologies
- Latin truculentia. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Just when you thought it was over, there will now be jokes about Gaborik being made of glass and the re-emergence of the term truculence ...”
“Just wait until Brian Burke hears that his team captain spent 20 minutes last week talking about the Toronto Maple Leafs without once mentioning the word "truculence," choosing instead to focus on words like "fast," and "up-tempo.”
“Farid’s nihilistic truculence is just a symptom of the larger problem.”
“From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness.”
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“When Brian Burke took over as general manager on Nov. 29, 2008 he promised, between using his favourite word truculence, a team that would fore-check aggressively, be tight defensively and rattle bodies at both ends of the ice.”
“Dealing with the truculence is the referees, and they are not finding it easy.”
“And it's doing so in an entertaining and risk-taking style with a bit of the "truculence" Mr. Burke says he wants from his players.”
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“However, I doubt if Angelou's use of "truculence" if it is indeed her use at all; we don't really know is an instance of this tradition.”
“As it is, Burke's story stands out as one of acceptance - from a man known for advocating for "truculence" in hockey and in a game with barriers that still need to be broken down.”
“In 42 games, Mayers has a goal and four assists and 76 penalty minutes, supposedly bringing the kind of truculence Burke wants.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘truculence’.
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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words 1
Traduce, Ramify, precipitous, rapture, adumbrate, knell, smolder, vagary, choleric, sibylline, hypocritical, jejune and 185 more...
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Not edible
Things that sound edible but are not (usually). See Liberty's To Eat, or Not to Eat? for more diet food.
cinnabar, dulcimer, belfries, potto, maltha, grapple, loam, rake, tort, pomade, buffalo chip, wedgie and 172 more...
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falsos amigos - false friends
"false friends (or faux amis) are pairs of words in two languages or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that look and/or sound similar, but differ in meaning." (wikipedia)
palabras...apposite, equivocate, cupidity, supercilious, voluble, cabal, petulant, truculence, embarrassed, casualty, exit, sunrise and 5 more...
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DAY2_01/05/2013
day 2, pundit, potentate, miscreant, renegade, timid, ribald, reprisal, dispersal, inoculate, disservice, dessicate and 33 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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Appellations
States of ment.
off kilter, fervent, nonchalant, exuberant, turbid, verbose, eloquent, vicarious, gallivant, orotund, amalgamate, accentuate and 285 more...
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To Learn
enervate, redolent, distaff, approbation, arrogate, bonhomie, palliate, calumny, panoply, contumacious, edify, dyspeptic and 188 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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GRE vocab
martinet, churlish, polyglot, aplomb, dissembler, histrionics, prevarication, ignominy, impugn, fastidious, trenchant, perfunctory and 155 more...
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List for Test Day
heresy, reversion, predilection, pedagogy, disparate, virtuous, refurbish, efficaciously, provenance, heckler, amorphous, epitome and 236 more...
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The Unique
egoist, individualist, loner, hateful, asocial, inactive, anarchist, misanthrope, fascist, disturbed, bored, isolationist and 111 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
Tweets
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padawan truculence: ferocity
truculencia: strangeness Jan 9, 2008