TRUCULENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does truculent mean? 

• TRUCULENT (adjective)
  The adjective TRUCULENT has 1 sense:

1. defiantly aggressive

  Familiarity information: TRUCULENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUCULENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Defiantly aggressive

Context example:

a truculent speech against the new government

Similar:

aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)

Derivation:

truculence; truculency (obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness)

 Context examples 

Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With our black silk face-coverings, which turned us into two of the most truculent figures in London, we stole up to the silent, gloomy house.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin came back and looked at the beady eyes, sneering, truculent, cowardly, and there leaped into his vision, as on a screen, the same eyes when their owner was making a sale in the store below—subservient eyes, smug, and oily, and flattering.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Only the Negro and I were near enough to hear what he said but the policeman caught something in the tone and looked over with truculent eyes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)