Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being truculent; savageness of manners and appearance; ferociousness; ferocity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.

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  • noun The state of being truculent.

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  • noun obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness

Etymologies

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Latin truculentia.

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Examples

  • Just when you thought it was over, there will now be jokes about Gaborik being made of glass and the re-emergence of the term truculence ...

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • Just wait until Brian Burke hears that his team captain spent 20 minutes last week talking about the Toronto Maple Leafs without once mentioning the word "truculence," choosing instead to focus on words like "fast," and "up-tempo."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JEFF BLAIR 2011

  • Farid’s nihilistic truculence is just a symptom of the larger problem.

    Matthew Yglesias » Ground Attack 2009

  • From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness.

    The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

  • From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness.

    Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893

  • When Brian Burke took over as general manager on Nov. 29, 2008 he promised, between using his favourite word truculence, a team that would fore-check aggressively, be tight defensively and rattle bodies at both ends of the ice.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Shoalts column 2010

  • When Brian Burke took over as general manager on Nov. 29, 2008 he promised, between using his favourite word truculence, a team that would fore-check aggressively, be tight defensively and rattle bodies at both ends of the ice.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Shoalts column 2010

  • When Brian Burke took over as general manager on Nov. 29, 2008 he promised, between using his favourite word truculence, a team that would fore-check aggressively, be tight defensively and rattle bodies at both ends of the ice.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Shoalts column 2010

  • Dealing with the truculence is the referees, and they are not finding it easy.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2008

  • And it's doing so in an entertaining and risk-taking style with a bit of the "truculence" Mr. Burke says he wants from his players.

    For America, It's 1980 All Over Again Ian Johnson 2010

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  • truculence: ferocity

    truculencia: strangeness

    January 10, 2008