Adjective : his truculent criticism of her work.    From Dictionary.com. 

When he answered me his voice had lost all truculency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference

And this, allied with the natural stubbornness and truculency of his disposition, became a grievous burden to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE REJUVENATION OF MAJOR RATHBONE] Reference

His tone had a note of truculency, but Erb did not seem to notice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laughing Fox]

The Frenchman's truculency seemed to vanish under Brett's cutting words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective] Reference

G. PERCYMMON, and there is a certain complacent truculency in the whole of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.] Reference

"I nearly was," said Kerry, a faint spark of his old truculency lighting up the weary eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dope] Reference

For them the old ethnocentric jealousy, vanity, truculency, and ambition are the strongest elements in patriotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference

"The general truculency of her attitude" seems to "threaten mischief to the inoffensive community" of Europe, and especially of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures Among Books] Reference

Lincoln was able to some extent to soften and to modify the needless truculency of the great War Secretary, and notwithstanding a good deal of troublesome friction, armies were organised and the troops were sent to the front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln] Reference

With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears by the fierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens careful of their safety against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears, by the fierceness of her beak and eye and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens, careful of their safety, against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears, by the fierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens, careful of their safety, against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

The two great principles are alike in their application; and what I had occasion to say at home I will repeat here, that if the pen of the historian shall ever record their downfall, not merely in the government, not merely in the Union, but their downfall in the hearts of the people, that act recorded by him will be as much owing to the truculency of the minority in the government as to the aggressive acts of the majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi. Called Session, January, 1861] Reference

Christianity is returning to its truculency, forgetful of the chiefest of virtues, Charity, I have often recalled the scene of that solemn noon-tide, and asked myself the question, "if any man could have heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"] Reference

Hill lost a little of his truculency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna the Adventuress] Reference

This poor, crude fellow, harsh, hard, narrow, with his unlovely nature, his fierce truculency, his selfishness, his obstinacy, abruptly knew that all the sweetness of life, all the great vivifying eternal force of humanity had burst into life within him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference