[ adj ] defiantly aggressive <adj.all> 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.
2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
More or less truculent plagues. --Harvey.
The truculent former Reagan administration secretary of education moderated one of the sessions and had some "feisty" exchanges with New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and other Democrats over defense spending.
The nation had to rid itself of its "truculent nostalgia" that it could still get its "way by bullying rather than by civilized agreement between free people."
Another American, the soprano Cyndia Sieden, makes her WNO debut as a truculent Serpetta.