truculence

• “To look at it.” He was so tired that he spoke without even truculence, yet nobody in the room, not even Sergeant Dice, pretended that the reason was unapparent. —  More Work for the Undertaker - Margery Allingham - Campion 13
• The air of truculence was still there but Alleyn thought it overlaid a kind of indecision. —  A Wreath for Rivera - also as Swing, Brother, Swing - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 15: 1949
• At home we want science, research, labour, tone, manners, and time; abroad we get the accumulated prejudices that have arisen from a factitious state of things; or, what is perhaps worse, their reaction, the servility of castes, or the truculence of revolution. —  A Residence in France
• Dealing with the truculence is the referees, and they are not finding it easy. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
• He out-puritans the Puritans; he is more fanatic than his idol; he has chosen to express himself with such a righteous truculence, such a sanguinary zeal, such a pious contempt for human virtue and human sympathies, as would have startled Old Noll himself. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847

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