Truculent

(adj.) defiantly aggressive; 'a truculent speech against the new government' .

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• The lad only answered by turning his cynical young face, half-arch, half-truculent, towards the paternal chair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• With our black silk face-coverings, which turned us into two of the most truculent figures in London, we stole up to the silent, gloomy house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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