What does truculently mean?
Truculently means With aggression; savagely..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
With aggression; savagely..
"It's no use your staying here, because I'm not going to copper anybody," said the woman truculently. "My lodgers are respectable people; they keep themselves to themselves, and I keep myself to myself.[…]"
After working hard for a couple of weeks he suddenly downed tools and truculently demanded thirty shillings.
Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance?
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face. Toberman was disconcerted. ‘What's the matter?’ he demanded truculently.
`What's wrong with that?' he demanded truculently.
Use truculently when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Truculently means With aggression; savagely..
Common synonyms include aggressively, belligerently, cruelly, defiantly.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"It's no use your staying here, because I'm not going to copper anybody," said the woman truculently. "My lodgers are respectable people; they keep themselves to themselves, and I keep myself to myself.[…]"
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