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Meanings of truculency in English

Spanish
agresividad

Obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness.

agresividad
Synonyms
Examples for "truculence"
Examples for "truculence"
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
Usage of truculency in English
1
Then he thrust out his jaw with a reawakened truculency, now aimed at her.
Stories from Everybody's Magazine
2
The Frenchman's truculency seemed to vanish under Brett's cutting words.
The Albert Gate Mystery / Being Further Adventures of Reginald B...
3
Pelham's truculency was well known.
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
4
"I nearly was," said Kerry, a faint spark of his old truculency lighting up the weary eyes.
Dope
Translations for truculency
Truculency through the time