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truculent

How to use truculent in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for truculent.

Editorial note

Worst of all are the truculent widget bars that refuse to scroll with the rest of the page.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of truculent gathered in one view.

adjective

defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for truculent.

adjective

defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"

Example sentences

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Worst of all are the truculent widget bars that refuse to scroll with the rest of the page.

2

I don't think Theo would be too happy about your calling OpenBSD a truculent OS...

3

I, for one, would not like to use a truculent operating system!

4

If anything; they're too helpful, and won't bash users over the head if they're being truculent, making them slow and crufty.

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Downvoted for being truculent and inflammatory, and not much else.

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Leukemia and Lymphoma are easy targets compared to more truculent solid tumors.

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Tiny sans-serif gray body text is of the Devil and should be grounds for irate and overbearing truculent curmudgeons to whine about on online forums.

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Actually, the CCP has always been belligerent and their demands of and threats against our treaty allies have always been truculent and unreasonable.

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The more truculent defenders slash at those who point out its deficiencies with remarks about their ignorance of subversion, and if you don't take a couple of weeks out of your schedule to learn its thorny ways then you deserve your problems.

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> truculent, uncooperative and insist on being the smartest asshole in the roomThere seems to be very little basis for characterizing the OP that way, so now thousands of people reading this on HN get to associate that phrase with your name.

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Sometimes it just takes "a terrible outbreak of tuberculosis selectively killing off the biggest, nastiest and most despotic males, setting the stage for a social and behavioral transformation unlike any seen in this notoriously truculent primate.

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This automated flagging will overwhelm the human investigators, creating a situation in which terrorists find it easier to hide and operate amongst the citizenry, with the added feature that innocent citizens swept up will become truculent and less likely to cooperate.

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" Pointing out the difference between America, and its allies, going to "war with non-nuclear Iraq" and their "diplomacy with nuclear-armed North Korea", Hasan concluded: "The simple fact is there is no alternative to diplomacy, no matter how truculent or paranoid the leaders of Iran might seem to western eyes.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use truculent in a sentence?

Worst of all are the truculent widget bars that refuse to scroll with the rest of the page.

What does truculent mean?

defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"

What part of speech is truculent?

truculent is commonly used as adjective.