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Meanings of truculency in English

Spanish
agresividad

Obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness.

        agresividad
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        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