Word of the DaySaturday, August 20, 2005
truculent
\TRUCK-yuh-luhnt\ , adjective:1.
Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous.
2.
Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
Quotes:
I ask whether impeachment will become still another arrow in the quiver of the warrior class of ever more truculent partisan politicians in Washington.
-- "Former Watergate Prosecutors See Censure as Alternative in Clinton's Case", New York Times, December 9, 1998
. . .officers mistook his father's cursing and argumentative reception of five men with guns for the actions of a truculent fugitive.
-- Frank J. Murray, "Media can't join police raids of homes high court decides", Washington Times, May 25, 1999
Those bamboozled into believing palpable untruths that are recognized as such by the larger community are likely in time to develop an attitude of truculent resentment and outright paranoia rather than self-esteem.
-- Thomas M. Disch, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
Origin:
Truculent derives from Latin truculentus, from trux, truc-, rough, savage, fierce.
