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1.
fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2.
brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work.
3.
aggressively hostile; belligerent.
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truculent
c.1540, from L. truculentus "fierce, savage," from trux (gen. trucis) "fierce, wild."
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