truculently

Meanings

• having or showing a readiness or inclination to use force or to resist force.

  - "The labor union was truculent in its negotiations with the management."
  - "The rebel leader was truculent in his dealings with the government."
  - "The defendant was truculent in court, refusing to answer the judge's questions."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with truculently
crully , dully , fully , gully , hully , jolly , lully , merry , merrily , nextly , nilly , nutty , peelly , plumly , prickly , prickly , puffy , quiverly , rudely , rumly , sally , sagely , sneakily , snugly , snappily , sprightly , swiftly , tingly , tickly , tightly , twinkly , unruly , vehemently , violently , vively , wickedly , wildly , woolly , wrathfully , wrinkledly

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Variants

List of all variants of truculently that leads to same result
truculent , truculently

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

from Latin truculus, meaning 'ready for battle, fierce'.

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Quotes

Quotes by authors and personalities

1. … in the breast pocket of her police uniform she carried a small silver figurine of Durga, the Hindu goddess of shakti: power and strength. Defiant and "truculent", she flashed a cheeky grin.

   - Mary Anne Weaver,{it}Atlantic{/it},November 1996

2. Within a year of publishing {it}The Female Eunuch{/it}, she had debated Norman Mailer in a "truculent" disputation at Town Hall in New York, turned up on the cover of Life magazine as the "saucy feminist that even men like," and inspired innumerable women to stop wearing underpants.

   - Margaret Talbot,{it}New Republic{/it},31 May 1999

3. Challenged to a fight by a "truculent" layabout on the playing fields of St. James's primary school one Saturday, he had replied to his aggressor's taunts with his own war cries …

   - Wole Soyinka,{it}Isara{/it},1989

4. Milton—in his prose an opinionated and "truculent" writer—remains a magnet for opinionated and "truculent" criticism.

   - Helen Vendler,{it}New Republic{/it},30 July 2001

5. The hard work is to demonstrate exactly how the outsize Churchillian personality, so "truculent", so impulsive, so often profoundly wrongheaded, became, in the dark spring of 1940, just what was needed for national survival.

   - Simon Schama,{it}New York Review of Books{/it},28 Feb. 2002

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