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Recent Examples of truculent Needing Maher’s truculent approval to sustain their own arguments, they’re defined by their enemy. Armond White, National Review, 7 June 2024 Little kids squirm in makeshift beds trying to stay awake for Santa, while truculent teenagers sneak out into the suburban night to do secret teenager things. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 May 2024 Russia’s truculent and obstructionist foreign policy under President Vladimir Putin comes from a sense of having lost the Cold War in the 1980s and having suffered the consequences of the defeat in the 1990s. Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2018 Mexico City is so inept, so compromised by the cartels, and so truculent that joint military action seems a pipe dream. Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for truculent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truculent
Adjective
  • Even though Trump showed signs of softening his aggressive tariff plan with an exemption last week for smartphones, computers and other electronics and floated a temporary exemption for autos, the administration continues to be amadamant more tariffs are coming soon.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
  • More likely than an all-out boycott, say attorneys, is a new era in which taxpayers and their accountants push the envelope with aggressive tax-planning techniques that may escape the review of an understaffed agency.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The group of former Northwestern football players have reportedly agreed to settle their lawsuits against the school, which alleged hazing and abusive behavior.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In a 1993 interview with the Los Angeles Daily News, North said his aunt Marie Hopper — who served as his guardian when his mother was working — was physically and emotionally abusive.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But graduating in 2009 meant stepping into a brutal job market during the Great Recession.
    William Jones, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Andrews adds musical interludes, which don’t always work, and brutal jokes, which do.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And in Lebanon, a series of Israeli attacks on the country have decapitated the militant group Hezbollah.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The group wrote to Bondi to argue that the influencer should be investigated over whether she has been paid to spread propaganda for Hamas, the Palestinian militant group in Gaza, it was first reported by the New York Post.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, however, Memrise charges $59.99 per month, which is insulting.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
  • To compare the incident to a possible leak of a football game plan is insulting to the U.S. military members who secure and safeguard our personal freedom each and every day.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Everybody else has no choice, really, other than to bring a cruel, narcissistic far-right leader to power.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The cruelest part is that the good ones are mixed with the bad ones.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • John Shine described to me a research trip to the hostile mountain environs of Tasmania, where snakes stay under cover except for the 20 or 30 warm days each year.
    Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Union members shared other experiences and stories, including those of an increasingly hostile work environment for some.
    Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • As a woman, I am appalled by Michael Tanzi's outrageous actions.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Several major automakers like Audi and Volkswagen have paused shipments to the United States to avoid paying outrageous import tariffs.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Truculent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truculent. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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