truculent
气势汹汹,气势汹汹的,气势磅礴,气势汹汹的人
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- : aggressively hostile; belligerent.
- : brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: Their truculent criticism of my latest work was not entirely fair.
- : savagely brutal; barbarous; cruel.
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If so, that will represent a departure from the truculent spirit of Obama and his adversaries during his first term.
And it turns out those hard-charging characteristics are exactly what is needed to tangle with the truculent contenders.
He described the men at the Lion d'Or as truculent, easily ready to take offense, difficult to persuade.
These truculent ruffians (when they have thoroughly earned a thrashing) will often accept it with most edifying docility.
They were led, as before, by the captain of the guard, and the truculent vizier Abdullah.
One of the Canadians who had been in the American Navy was unusually truculent.
Groups of truculent young Arabs followed us shouting objurgations, and accepting small coins as ransom.