truculent

Why on earth did she have to sound like a truculent child?

There was something almost truculent in the way he said it.

He was his mother in truculent mood all over again.

His voice, which had been truculent, now became ominous as well.

This last was said with a truculent stare around the room.

She sounded truculent, more than ready to get into it if I wanted to.

They're both over 70 now, and it will be curious to see if age has made them more truculent, or less.

You can catch a return ride to Truculent from there.

A slightly less truculent look appeared in old William's face.

He looked up and nodded to a truculent circle of people at the next table.

This time the sergeant of police in the boat was more truculent.

But I'm not leaving here, she told herself, unusually truculent.

A little less truculent now, he stepped away from the desk, walked across the control center.

The Lebanese government fired back with truculent words of its own.

"Ready take old Truculent into space from the command seat, then?"

She always sounded truculent when the harness came into view.

She shook her head, baffled and a little truculent now.

He gave me a final truculent nod, turned and walked out, leaving the door open.

He was at the same time sympathetic, truculent, serious, off the point, negative.

"The Government is very defiant, even truculent," another official said.

However, from the looks of Truculent, your medical officer would probably welcome a hand with the wounded.

I saw that in person while we shipped together aboard old Truculent.

Truculent was then sold to be broken up for scrap on 8 May 1950.

There were truculent murmurs of agreement all around the room.

His voice, when he turned to me, was truculent.