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Webster 1913 Edition
Truculently
Tru′cu-lent-ly
,adv.
In a truculent manner.
Definition 2024
truculently
truculently
English
Adverb
truculently (comparative more truculently, superlative most truculently)
- With aggression; savagely.
- 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies, chapter 11
- Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance?
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess:
- It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face. Toberman was disconcerted. ‘What's the matter?’ he demanded truculently.
- 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies, chapter 11
Synonyms
- (with agression): aggressively, belligerently, cruelly, defiantly, ferociously, savagely