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truculent means: defiantly aggressive

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truculent

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɹʌk.jʊ.lənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted celnrttuuStarts with TEnds with T0 clues

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First attested circa 1540, from Middle French, from Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”).

“The truculent soldiers gave us a steely-eyed stare.”
“She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.”
“His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.”

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