Synonyms for truculent

Grammar : Adj

Spell : truhk-yuh-luhnt, troo-kyuh-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtrʌk yə lənt, ˈtru kyə-

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Définition of truculent

Origin : 1540s, from Latin truculentus "fierce, savage," from trux (genitive trucis) "fierce, wild."

adj belligerent, hateful

Example sentences :

It was with an ugly and truculent manner, if more warily, that the man closed in.
Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

But outnumbering them by far were faces set in truculent mold.
Extract from : « The Martian Cabal » by Roman Frederick Starzl

George, who was big and lank, and truculent in appearance, nodded.
Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss

I could have embraced that figure of grotesque and truculent devotion.
Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

The Illanun chiefs, for all their truculent aspect, were much too prudent to attempt to move.
Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad

He was a truculent, untamable rough, evidently inspired with gin.
Extract from : « The Gypsies » by Charles G. Leland

Or was I, after all my grind, to yield a place to the truculent Coxhead?
Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed

De Marle was helpless with illness, but truculent in temper.
Extract from : « Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) » by Charles Morris

It is not like mortal fire, a consuming, dangerous, truculent element.
Extract from : « Joyous Gard » by Arthur Christopher Benson

"Come, now," he added, changing swiftly into his most truculent mood.
Extract from : « The Hand in the Dark » by Arthur J. Rees

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