truculently

English

Etymology

From truculent +‎ -ly.

Adverb

truculently (comparative more truculently, superlative most truculently)

  1. With aggression; savagely.
    • 1923, Edgar Wallace, chapter XXXVII, in The Missing Million, London: John Long, […], published 1927, →OCLC, page 211:
      "It's no use your staying here, because I'm not going to copper anybody," said the woman truculently. "My lodgers are respectable people; they keep themselves to themselves, and I keep myself to myself. […]"
    • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 71:
      After working hard for a couple of weeks he suddenly downed tools and truculently demanded thirty shillings.
    • 1954, William Golding, “chapter 11”, in Lord of the Flies:
      Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance?
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 128:
      `What's wrong with that?' he demanded truculently.

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