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Meanings of truculence in anglès

espanyol
agresividad

Obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness.

agresividad
Usage of truculence in anglès
1
He stood on the hearth-rug and glowered at him with heavy truculence.
The Loudwater Mystery
2
Nor was she pleased by the High Sparrow's endless truculence and ingratitude.
A feast for crows
3
Nothing could have been more unlike his saturnine self-centred truculence of restraint.
Romance
4
Some found him truculent, but he never displayed any truculence to me.
With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement
5
The desert regions of the West seemed always to breed truculence and touchiness.
The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado
6
Even in his gaiety there was an unpleasant spice of greed and truculence.
A Book of Scoundrels
7
Not that I ever needed it,-withsudden truculence in his tone.
The Voice in the Fog
8
Raban's schoolwork is on the slide; his adolescent truculence is on the up.
The Guardian
9
The race had changed his mood completely, filling him with a joyous truculence.
The Mayor of Warwick
10
Give no ground to your critics, Bannon urged the president, with characteristic truculence.
The Irish Times
11
Richard seemed to have lost much of his truculence of manner.
The Box with Broken Seals
12
He spoke with truculence, and now de Courcelles did not interfere.
The Hunters of the Hills
13
He was not weak and could explode with ferocity and truculence.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
14
There is no truculence about him, no show of physical force.
Humanly Speaking
15
Feraud's engaging, careless truculence of a beau sabreur underwent a change.
A Set of Six
16
Oates' menacing voice had more terror for Lovel than Bedloe's truculence.
The Path of the King
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