truculence
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That failure and the truculence that followed it cost him a lot of goodwill.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Musk reacted to McCormick’s ruling with characteristic truculence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Perhaps what the Panthers need is a few more bounces and a little less truculence.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 4, 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
Instead of returning the salute, Bull stopped the car completely and stared with visible truculence at the guard who held his salute as rigidly as some umpires who call strikes on batters with exaggerated formality.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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