truculence
Example Sentences
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Musk reacted to McCormick’s ruling with characteristic truculence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Perhaps what the Panthers need is a few more bounces and a little less truculence.
From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2023
At an event in Rochester, N.H., later on Thursday, Mr. DeSantis flashed a hint of truculence after a reporter asked him about Mr. Trump’s claim that he could fix the country’s problems in six months.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023
Our cranky nation, with its constant surplus of truculence, could benefit from a smidgen of Thomas Jefferson’s live-and-let-live spirit.
From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022
His round white cap was cocked at an insolent tilt, his hands were clenched, and he glared at everything in the room with a scowl of injured truculence.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
