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He looked as I had seen him in my fancy a thousand times--truculent, gray and awful.

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  1. adjective Disposed to fight; pugnacious.
  2. adjective Expressing bitter opposition; scathing: a truculent speech against the new government.
  3. adjective Disposed to or exhibiting violence or destructiveness; fierce.

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  • But if Stanton was truculent, a tyrant and a bully—infinitely more important—he was honest and strong in office and broke the ring of grafters who had been robbing the government, and did his work heroically. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life of Abraham Lincoln by John Hugh Bowers
  • Cliff was nervous, truculent, and inclined to give battle. —  Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 13: 1944
  • Calculated trouble brooded over their truculent isolation. —  Cargo of Eagles - Margery Allingham - Campion 21: 1968
  • It might have been all right only instead of getting friendly he got truculent, as some people do, and while they were trying to get him beyond that stage he passed out altogether and they had to put him to bed. —  The Case of the Late Pig - Margery Allingham - Campion 08 - 1937
  • How to galvanize the truculent, self-absorbed herd into enthusiastically supporting your vital agenda once more? —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin truculentus, from trux, truc-, fierce; see terə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French truculent = Spanish Portuguese Italian truculento, from Latin truculentus, fierce, savage, ferocious, from trux (truc-), fierce, wild.
 

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