See truculent in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.",
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"ref": "1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg, published March 1915, →OCLC:",
"text": "Rokoff assumed a truculent air, attempting by bravado to show how little he feared Tarzan’s threats.",
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"ref": "1877, David Magarshack, chapter 12, in Anna Karenina, part 6, translation of original by Leo Tolstoy:",
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"ref": "1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 10, in The Beasts of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1916, →OCLC:",
"text": "If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating.",
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"ref": "1992, Joel Feinberg, “The Social Importance of Moral Rights”, in Philosophical Perspectives, Ethics, page 195:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2013 February 11, Phil Bronstein, quoting SEAL Team Six Member, “The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed”, in Esquire Magazine:",
"text": "These bitches is getting truculent.",
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"ref": "1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 10, in The Wheels of Chance: A Holiday Adventure, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co.; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Co., →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] or again, the first whispering of love, dainty and witty and tender, to the girl he served a few days ago with sateen, or a gallant rescue of generalised beauty in distress from truculent insult or ravening dog.",
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"ref": "1922, Rafael Sabatini, chapter XVI, in Captain Blood:",
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"ref": "1665, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague … with several waies for purifying the air in houses, streets:",
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"roman": "svirep",
"sense": "cruel or savage",
"word": "свиреп"
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"sense": "cruel or savage",
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"sense": "cruel or savage",
"word": "tainanakia"
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"sense": "cruel or savage",
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"sense": "cruel or savage",
"word": "жесто́кий"
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"roman": "predizvikatelen",
"sense": "defiant or uncompromising",
"word": "предизвикателен"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "mṭruli",
"sense": "defiant or uncompromising",
"word": "მტრული"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "defiant or uncompromising",
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"roman": "vyzyvájuščij",
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"word": "вызыва́ющий"
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"roman": "vojnstven",
"sense": "eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict",
"word": "войнствен"
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"sense": "eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict",
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"sense": "eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict",
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"word": "vechtlustig"
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"sense": "eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict",
"word": "streitsüchtig"
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"sense": "eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict",
"word": "aufsässig"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict",
"word": "widerspenstig"
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"roman": "uništožitelen",
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"word": "унищожителен"
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"sense": "deadly or destructive",
"word": "vernichtend"
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"sense": "deadly or destructive",
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