truculent
Example Sentences
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His schedule is littered with appointments called “executive time” or “meeting time,” as if he were a truculent child, in a Romper Room of his own making.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
He describes his co-star in The Piano, the American actor Harvey Keitel, as "truculent and difficult and a bit graceless".
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2023
Of course, this important nuance was lost on a truculent media, which received Ho’s decision with predictable disdain.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
The cast also features the great Mike Hagerty, who died May 5 after the filming of Season 1, as their beleaguered farmer father, as well as Mary Catherine Garrison as Sam’s truculent other sister Tricia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
I own that such is not known; but that indeed, the scholars of the College believed the disease was caused by the inhalation of truculent animalcula.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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