Meaning

Cruel or savage..

Definitions by Sense

1. Cruel or savage.
2. Defiant or uncompromising.
3. Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
4. (of speech or writing) Violent; rude; scathing; savage; harsh.
5. (obsolete, rare, of a disease) Destructive; deadly.

Example Sentences

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.

In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.

Rokoff assumed a truculent air, attempting by bravado to show how little he feared Tarzan’s threats.

She might pity herself, but he must not pity her. She did not want any quarrel; she blamed him for wanting one, but she could not help assuming a truculent attitude.

If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating.

It is an important source of the value of moral rights then that — speaking very generally — they dispose people with opposed interests to be reasonable rather than arrogant and truculent.

Word Forms

• more truculent
• most truculent

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When Should You Use Truculent?

Use truculent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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