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• r  in an aggressively truculent manner
  they strive for security by truculently asserting their own interests
• r  in a defiantly truculent manner
  the boy looked up truculently at his teacher

• Now that it's December, a lot of us are singing, humming or truculently enduring "White Christmas.
• The grand jury and the House committee each truculently proclaimed its authority, competed for witnesses.
• Last year Benito Mussolini truculently held Italy's war games on the country's North frontier.