"Truculent" (TRUK-yuh-lunt) – from the Latin for "savage" – means ferocious or cruel.
Example (as used by Frank J. Murray in the Washington Times): "… officers mistook his father’s cursing and argumentative reception of five men with guns for the actions of a truculent fugitive."
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