eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant
Brecht, bewildered and unnerved, reacted to this revolt of the masses with a mixture of truculent bluff and sentimental pathos in his private diaries.
Truculent busboys splashed uneaten soup on them as they sped past
They were voluble, excitable, high-spirited, quarrelsome, truculent and aggressive. Not like ‘us’ at all.
In the early 1990s, I made the truculent, unprovable assertion that if Chinese grandmaster Hou Hsiao-hsien were French, he’ d be the darling of Manhattan’s Upper West Side
put truculent labor unions in their place
innovation is so widespread and its goodness so seemingly self-evident that questioning it might seem bizarre and truculent, like criticizing beauty, science, or penicillin
He stood in a truculent posture, legs apart
the stark confrontational truculence of each makes them of the moment to me
a very definite tendency to sound truculent because you want no one to think you are soft
Around lights-out, Prisoner 1037 gets a little truculent at the overdone theatrics
carried his bald head the way a certain kind of truculent person carries his butt
I am not of that leftist breed that piously proclaims that everything is open to criticism, and then, when asked to produce three major criticisms of Marx, lapses into truculent silence.