0 the quality of being truculent (= unpleasant and likely to argue a lot):
His truculence was irritating me.
Truculence and a longing for revenge characterized their mood.
He is normally noted for some degree of truculence.
With tremendous truculence he puts forward his case.
The arrogance and truculence of the vice-chancellors is beyond belief.
The secret in all these talks is to guard against excesses of conciliation on the one hand and of truculence on the other.
Its truculence is always the truculence of the fainthearted.
