| 单词 | truculence |
| 释义 | truculence (once / 23267 pages) n If you get into fights all of the time, you might be accused of truculence and sent for anger management classes. Truculence is showing a fierce kind of aggression. If your basketball team wins a game by sheer truculence, it means that they win not by skill or talent, but by playing with ferocious aggression. It would be a dirty win, one with lots of fouls and thrown elbows. Truculence comes from the Latin word for trux meaning fierce or wild. WORD FAMILYtruculence: truculences+/truculency: truculencies/truculent: truculence, truculency, truculenter, truculently USAGE EXAMPLESHer composed manner bore little resemblance to her brother’s theatrical truculence. The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2016) The truculence went out of the boy and a magnanimity took its place. John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952) There was a general truculence about the notion that the threat of Donald Trump should compel progressives to shuffle into line behind the candidate. The New Yorker(Jul 26, 2016) n obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness Syn|Hyper truculency aggressiveness, belligerence, pugnacity a natural disposition to be hostile |
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