truculence
Example Sentences
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Its approach to union organizing activity may not be entirely welcoming, but seems to lack the truculence and hostility shown by retailers such as Starbucks and Amazon.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025
Perhaps what the Panthers need is a few more bounces and a little less truculence.
From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2023
At an event in Rochester, N.H., later on Thursday, Mr. DeSantis flashed a hint of truculence after a reporter asked him about Mr. Trump’s claim that he could fix the country’s problems in six months.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023
Our cranky nation, with its constant surplus of truculence, could benefit from a smidgen of Thomas Jefferson’s live-and-let-live spirit.
From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022
The truculence went out of the boy and a magnanimity took its place.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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