truculent ˈtrʌkjələnt adjective
: defiantly aggressive
The word truculent has appeared in 18 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 6 in “Why the British Were Afraid of Winning World War II,” by Kevin Peraino. In this review of “Advance Britannia,” a multivolume narrative by Alan Allport, Mr. Peraino writes:
Allport is a fluid writer, a conjurer with the rare ability to sustain a gripping narrative without resorting to Vaseline-lensed sentimentality. He overturns one piece of conventional wisdom after another — quarrelsome, occasionally, to a fault. In the first volume in the series, “Britain at Bay,” Allport is so truculent that he sometimes seems like the uncle who will argue anything at the family table just to get a rise out of grandfather. This second volume is smoother and more measured, less jarring if more conventional.
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