truculent
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
truculent
- Cruel or savage.
- The truculent soldiers gave us a steely-eyed stare.
- Deadly or destructive.
- Defiant or uncompromising.
- Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
- 1992, Joel Feinberg, “The Social Importance of Moral Rights ↗” in Philosophical Perspectives VI (Ethics, 1992), page 195:
- It is an important source of the value of moral rights then that — speaking very generally — they dispose people with opposed interests to be reasonable rather than arrogant and truculent.
- 2010, Seal Team 6 Member, in Esquire Magazine "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden..."
- (Refering to women in Bin Laden’s compound) “These bitches is getting truculent.”
- 1992, Joel Feinberg, “The Social Importance of Moral Rights ↗” in Philosophical Perspectives VI (Ethics, 1992), page 195:
- (cruel or savage) barbarous, cruel, ferocious, fierce, savage
- (deadly or destructive) deadly, destructive
- (defiant or uncompromising) defiant, inflexible, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding
- (eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict) belligerent
- French: agressif, agressive
- German: grausam, wild, barbarisch
- Portuguese: truculento
- Russian: жесто́кий
- Spanish: truculento
- Spanish: truculento
- Russian: вызыва́ющий
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