truculently
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Etymology edit
Adverb edit
truculently (comparative more truculently, superlative most truculently)
- With aggression; savagely.
- 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.
Synonyms edit
- (with aggression): aggressively, belligerently, cruelly, defiantly, ferociously, savagely