truculently

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
21
Letters
11

Definition of truculently

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. With aggression; savagely.
    “"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.[…]"”
    “After working hard for a couple of weeks he suddenly downed tools and truculently demanded thirty shillings.”
    “Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance?”
    “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.”
    “`What's wrong with that?' he demanded truculently.”

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Etymology

From truculent + -ly.

Words you can make from truculently

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37 words

2-letter words

11 words

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