How To Use Truculent In A Sentence
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a fund of purblind obduracy, of opaque _flunkyism_ grown truculent and transcendent; what an eye for the phylacteries, and want of eye for the eternal noblenesses; sordid loyalty to the prosperous Semblances, and high-treason against the Supreme Fact, such a vote betokens in these natures?
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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Colleagues say the negotiating skills he displayed during his dealings with truculent Glasgow councillors showed he has the mettle for the big time.
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Oh, how the Simpson's writing staff can truculently castigate styli of pretentiousness when necessitated by buffoonery...
Succulent truculence.
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Actually it sounds more like you and your management need to receive a MCP envelope. hit your regiment is, I cannot comment too much, except to note that if (when I was a soldier) some useless twát had got a course because I had to fill their slot on an exercise then a formal complaint would have gone in (maybe that's why my final CR as a soldier before I went to RMAS stated I was "bumptious" and "truculent"?)
Army Rumour Service
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Those who sought to defend the rights of property-owners were exposed to truculent and often offensive questioning.
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This is backed up by the first single ‘Slow Burn’ which features some ridiculously truculent axe work from Pete Townshend.
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Indeed, Asperger’s is all over SF, nor did I use the term facetiously in this case, since I suspect (albeit only from a remove, and based only on my interactions with him) that Burt may have some variation of Asperger’s, which would explain (although not necessarily excuse) some of his truculent behavior and inability to process why others might have objections to his actions.
A Gut Check Moment for SFWA « Whatever
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He might take it as a national mandate to pursue the policy of truculent unilateralism.
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Two were burly security guards and the third was the angry, truculent figure of Robert Holtzheim being escorted into a car.
COMPULSION
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Instead, they gradually fell into a sullen silence, their noisemakers clacked to a dead stop, and the truculent trumpet blasts were shushed.
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Likely scoopful no menura for the truculent loutish on this web shrub, but does arcadic crete of the mouthful colonizer dangerously forgivably each. of my cherokee lampyridae fickleness from my uncured propanal, wedlock, trombiculid, and espial from my destitution.
Rational Review
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But he was truculent enough for a species of janitor she'd encountered one or two times in her life.
T2©: RISING STORM
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Read a selection of past interviews and you're left with a picture of a truculent, grumpy old curmudgeon.
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Ching led us farther and farther away from the riverside, and past enclosures at whose gates stood truculent-looking, showily-dressed men, who carried swords hung from a kind of baldrick, and scowled at us from beneath their flat, conical lacquered hats.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
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The doctor first put on the table a non-poisonous but very vicious and truculent colubrine snake.
I. The Start
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In fact, in contemporary society the transition from pleasant child to dramatically truculent teenager, with an ego like a hedgehog that raises its spikes at the slightest touch, tends to happen earlier and earlier.
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His truculent - if abruptly curtailed - brilliance in the role is a fitting memorial to his often underrated talent.
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So how did this truculent loner become one of our best loved national mascots?
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They are of the gloomy, razor-bearing variety; full of short-sighted lies and prompt dishonesties, amusing always, but truculent and tricky; and the sunny sweetness which we all know in the Negro character is not there.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Then wise Pallas is struck down by the dagger of error, and the charming Pierides are smitten by the truculent tyranny of madness.
The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
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No-Eyes, bored and truculent, saw the very same things but saw them as boring and limited.
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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It was not that Thurlow was truculent or even openly resentful of another visit.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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Thus, taking the Laughing Hyena as the next illustration, it will be remembered by all students of GOLDSMITH'S _Animated Nature_, that this amiable quadruped invariably exercises his risibles when he is crunching the bones of some other less truculent quadruped.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870
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Indeed, other than a primitive anticommunism which is but the obverse sign of a verbally truculent hometown jingoism, he has no foreign policy.
Know Thy President
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‘He was a truculent and feisty character who you couldn't fail to admire and I believe those wartime experiences took a toll on his health in later years,’ he said.
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The familiar avuncular figure in a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches does not seem the obvious choice to distribute condoms to truculent teenagers.
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they strive for security by truculently asserting their own interests
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Read a selection of past interviews and you're left with a picture of a truculent, grumpy old curmudgeon.
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They are of the gloomy, razor-bearing variety; full of short-sighted lies and prompt dishonesties, amusing always, but truculent and tricky; and the sunny sweetness which we all know in the Negro character is not there.
A Renegade History of the United States
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His hand, falling lightly upon the man's shoulder, brought him squarely about, his expression transiently startled, if not a shade truculent.
The Bronze Bell
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In front was a stumpily-built bullock driver with a red, truculent face, a ragged carrotty beard and inflamed narrow-ridded eyes.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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Gladstone sees him level, Bloom for Bloom. he passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington, but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
Ulysses
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Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres.
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
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Propè ad vallis medium sub vna rupium, apparet omni tempore visibiliter integrum ac maximum caput daemonis vsque ad humeros tantùm, cuius speciem præ horrore nullus pleno intuitu humanus audet diu oculus sustinere: nam respicientes contrà aspicit truculentèr, agitans oculos minacitèr, tanquam ex palpebris eiecturus (quæ et scintillant) flammas in altum.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Perhaps all this success and recognition has softened what was once a rather truculent disposition.
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His exacting personal standards, morose private nature and unapologetic misogyny often gave him a truculent, dyspeptic appearance which was well deserved.
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He might take it as a national mandate to pursue the policy of truculent unilateralism.
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The priest realized the crucial moment, felt his power tottering, opened his mouth in denunciation, but fled backward before the truculent advance, upraised fist, and flashing eyes, of Mackenzie.
The Sun of the Wolf
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the boy looked up truculently at his teacher
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a truculent speech against the new government
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Amongst the personages of a lower class, the most prominent is Toussaint Gilles, landlord of the Cheval Patriote, and son of one of the revolutionary butchers of the Reign of Terror; a furious republican, who wears a _carmagnole_ and a red cap, inherits his father's hatred of the vile aristocrats, and prides himself on his principles, and on a truculent and immeasurable mustache.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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`I'm not going," Todd called out, more truculent by the minute.
FINAL RESORT
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The truculent aggression and stiff-necked unilateralism of both teams are already well known.
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He might take it as a national mandate to pursue the policy of truculent unilateralism.
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Truculent and self-confident as he was, he never acted against the royal authority in such a manner as to oblige the king to strike him down in secret; and it is difficult to believe that Louis XIV, peaceably seated on his throne, with all the enemies of his minority under his feet, should have revenged himself on the duke as an old Frondeur.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
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She was very argumentative and truculent and when I tried to calm her down, I noticed something strange.
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Admittedly it was mid-afternoon when I saw the film at the town's cinema: an evening audience might perhaps have been a touch more truculent.
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Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe!
The Frontiersmen
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The stoker laughed truculently, and Billy ventured upon a faint echo of the jeering cachinnation.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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Her tone in doing so was truculent, self-satisfied and arrogant.
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He is, however, notoriously truculent and would demand a high salary.
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Propè ad vallis medium sub vna rupium, apparet omni tempore visibiliter integrum ac maximum caput daemonis vsque ad humeros tantùm, cuius speciem præ horrore nullus pleno intuitu humanus audet diu oculus sustinere: nam respicientes contrà aspicit truculentèr, agitans oculos minacitèr, tanquam ex palpebris eiecturus (quæ et scintillant) flammas in altum.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Albert Finney is the cocky, belligerent antihero of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, scripted by Alan Sillitoe from his novel: a truculent toolmaker with an off-duty taste for fine suitings.
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No group or organisation can be held accountable, nor should they be for the actions of a small group of truculent individuals.
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Danny is a truculent teenager, expressing unhappiness through behaviour that perplexes his parents and leads to eventual expulsion from school.
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Nobody is beyond rebuke, particularly if they happen to have anything to do with government, and the truculent trio never worry what the fall-out might be when they decide it's time for a tongue-lashing.
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It is that truculent attitude that most irritates many military men.
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But his truculent behaviour and volatile temper is outraging purists.
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He was an actor who dared to tread the boards at the York Theatre Royal in the 18th century, when it was known to host one of the most raucous and truculent audiences around.
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Mr Gulching, outwardly frigid but inwardly liquescent, agrees that this is so; and adds in a truculent growl that he would like to see 'em try it on.
The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
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“Jimmy” — was a tall, lanky man, irreclaimably truculent, incapable of recognising the dominance of those who bestowed his Christian name.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Those who expected to find him maudlin, helpless, disconsolate, shrank from the cold, hard eyes and truculent voice that bade them "begone," and "leave him with his dead.
Drift from Two Shores
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He attempted to hold the two men apart, but pressing too hard against the truculent individual, overbalanced him and threw him to the floor.
CHAPTER 11