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truculent

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1. truculent - Adjective

2. truculent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.

Cruel; destructive; ruthless.

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There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly. Dwight D. Eisenhower

They sat in small parties with a truculent quietness that sneered at and challenged the frantic hustle of the times and the belief that the hustle was leading anywhere. Fritz Leiber

a truculent speech against the new government Source: Internet

The efforts of the Sadozai heirs of Timur to impose a true monarchy on the truculent Pashtun tribes, and their efforts to rule absolutely and without the advice of the other major Pashtun tribal leaders, were ultimately unsuccessful. Source: Internet

To me at least he appeared devious, truculent and unreliable where his own interests were at stake." Source: Internet

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