truculent

truculent
    adj 1: defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new
           government"
    

Truculent \Tru"cu*lent\, a. [L. truculentus, fr. trux, gen.
   trucis, wild, fierce: cf. F. truculent.]
   1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent
      inhabitants of Scythia. --Ray.
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   2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
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            More or less truculent plagues.       --Harvey.
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128 Moby Thesaurus words for "truculent":
      Draconian, Tartarean, abrupt, aggressive, animal, antagonistic,
      anthropophagous, atrocious, bad-tempered, barbaric, barbarous,
      battling, bearish, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial,
      bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bluff, blunt, brash,
      browbeating, brusque, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, bullying,
      cannibalistic, cavalier, chauvinist, chauvinistic, churlish,
      combative, contentious, contumelious, cowing, cruel, cruel-hearted,
      crusty, curt, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, enemy,
      fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting,
      frightening, full of fight, grim, gruff, harsh, hawkish, hellish,
      hostile, ill-tempered, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical,
      intimidating, invective, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic,
      martial, militant, militaristic, military, murderous, nasty,
      obstreperous, offensive, opprobrious, pugnacious, quarrelsome,
      rough, rude, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary,
      sanguineous, satanic, savage, scathing, scrappy, scurrile,
      scurrilous, severe, sharkish, sharp, short, slavering, snippy,
      soldierlike, soldierly, subhuman, sullen, surly, terrifying,
      terrorizing, trigger-happy, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly,
      unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, unpleasant, vicious,
      violent, virulent, vituperative, warlike, warmongering, warring,
      wolfish