0 the quality of being truculent (= unpleasant and likely to argue a lot): --
This group of poems belongs mostly to the early youth of the poet, and displays a truculence and a controversial heat which are absent from his more mature writings.
He is known for his cutting corners, thrifty nature with money and general truculence towards the staff.
And probably his power and truculence were all the more impressive because he did look a good deal like a distant relative.
She was, however, the first witness to use her bad memory, truculence, and total lack of refinement, and at times, even ignorance, to great advantage.
Inevitably they have reacted sharply against it, though theirs alone, by their truculence and intransigence, is the responsibility for the situation which has made it necessary.
A billeting officer had occasion to go to a lady who was the owner of a large house and the possessor of a reputation for truculence.
So far, his approach could be described as "toughness without truculence".
Yes, but there was a little note of truculence.
