truculent

Cruel or savage.

The truculent soldiers gave us a steely-eyed stare.

Đồng nghĩa: barbarous, ferocious, fierce, barbarous, bowelless, brutal, compassionless, cruel, demonic, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, fell, incessive, inclement, inhuman, inhumane, malicious, merciless, nasty, nonhumane, pitiless, remorseless, rotten, ruthless, sadistic, savage, spiteful, truculent, unbenevolent, unbenign, unkind, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying, animalistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarious, barbarous, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim, heathen, heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, incivil, pagan, savage, tenebrose, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uplandish, wolfish

Defiant or uncompromising.

Đồng nghĩa: inflexible, stubborn, unyielding, adamant, ardent, grim, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inflexible, irrefragable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful

Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.

Đồng nghĩa: bellicose, belligerent, pugnacious, aggressive, antagonistic, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, martial, militaristic, philopolemic, philopolemical, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent, warlike

(of speech or writing) Violent; rude; scathing; savage; harsh.

Đồng nghĩa: acerbic, caustic, vitriolic, vituperative

(obsolete, rare)(obsolete, rare, of a disease) Destructive; deadly.