truculent

• “A kind of truculent honesty which he could never dissemble for long, always stood in his way.”

  The Complete Stories

• “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.”

  A Little Tour of France

• “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,”

  Trumps

• “The general manager of the Leafs has famously stated he wants a "truculent" and”

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “Letter, of the "truculent" and "unhappy" national symbol presiding over the entrance to Salem‘s”

  National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest

• “A kind of truculent question was in his eyes -- as much as to say, "Now then, what do you make of it all?”

  Warlock o' Glenwarlock

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “She would show up in a hard hat, like some truculent crusader.”

  Lorelei

• “Fischer's increasingly bizarre, truculent behavior alienated friends and family and landed him in serious legal trouble.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Lybarger: The Search Is Over: Liz Garbus on Bobby Fischer Against the World

• “Check out these widely-publicized riffs from Noah Pollak of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the permanently truculent folks at Front Page magazine.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Fleshler: Why the Jewish Right Is Terrified by J Street's Conference

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