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English
Etymology
From truculent + -ly.
Adverb
truculently (comparative more truculently, superlative most truculently)
- With aggression; savagely.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face. Toberman was disconcerted. ‘What's the matter?’ he demanded truculently.
1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 128:`What's wrong with that?' he demanded truculently.
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