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

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

He is benevolently condescending and professorial, inviting us to share his delight in the early American audience's "wonderful" naiveté and truculence.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

The truculence went out of the boy and a magnanimity took its place.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck