truculent
Example Sentences
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The other students might not be as truculent as Elham, but they are just as ambivalent about the necessity of learning English.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
In the show, Chao plays the truculent, egoistic chef Lucy Dang.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023
He describes his co-star in The Piano, the American actor Harvey Keitel, as "truculent and difficult and a bit graceless".
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2023
It’s easy to dismiss self-proclaimed “refusers” as nostalgic hippies, snooty hipsters, or truculent kids.
From Slate • Jan. 1, 2023
Like him, you are tough, dark, vulnerable, moody—with a very definite tendency to sound truculent because you want no one to think you are soft.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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