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Definition of Truculently
1. Adverb. In an aggressively truculent manner. "They strive for security by truculently asserting their own interests"
2. Adverb. In a defiantly truculent manner. "The boy looked up truculently at his teacher"
Definition of Truculently
1. adv. In a truculent manner.
Definition of Truculently
1. Adverb. With aggression; savagely. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truculently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truculently
Literary usage of Truculently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (1904)
"Then, truculently, to the Virginian, " I told you I was going to get a bottle here."
" Have your bottle, then," said the deputy foreman, and kicked him off ..."
2. Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold by Lytton Strachey (1918)
"First he tried to exorcise the spectre with the rolling periods of the Caroline
divines ; but it only strutted the more truculently. ..."
3. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1908)
"From among the truculently impolitic laws, by which it is surrounded in the
Statute-book, it stands out as the work of states- It was, however, ..."
4. American Literature: And Other Papers by Edwin Percy Whipple (1887)
"The more impersonal he became in his statements and arguments, the more truculently
was he assailed by the personalities . of the . political gossip and ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"Yet the very possession of the stick might cause him to swagger truculently.
In truth, this question of the size of the gun the nation should tote presents ..."
6. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1916)
"Jonson subsequently issued an ' apologetical dialogue' (appended to printed copies
of the Poetaster), in which he somewhat truculently qualified his ..."
7. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"Then, truculently, to the Virginian, "I told you I was going to get a bottle here."
"Have your bottle, then," said the deputy-foreman, and kicked him off ..."
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