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truculent
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synonyms: bellicose,pugnacious, fractious, jingoistic, irascible, umbrageous, furibund ???
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Definition:eager or quick to argue or fight
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"I know she goes in for giving a rapid precis of all her guests. I remember her bringing me up to a truculent and red-faced old gentleman covered all over with orders and ribbons, and hissing into my ear, in a tragic whisper which must have been perfectly audible to everybody in the room, the most astounding details.
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Carrie, who had adored the sound of her own constant chatter, now became almost as truculent as Cory.
V.C. Andrews. Flowers in the Attic, p.173 (1979)
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Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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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.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Pratt paused truculently, then rubbed her index finger under her nostrils with such vigor that her nose performed a kind of war dance.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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Nilsson stood outside, an uneasy mixture of truculent, ursine, and tired. The dark circles under his eyes were not as big as mine, but they were getting there.
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“Lee was admiring your grasp of the subject.”
The truculence went out of the boy and a magnanimity took its place.
John Steinbeck. East of Eden, p.363 (1952)
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"No, there hasn't been any one else," she answered almost truculently.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World, p.27 (1932)
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