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truculent

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–adjective 
1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal. 
2. brutally harsh; vitriolic (硫酸的); scathing: his truculent [criticism] of her work. 
3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.  

　
And in Marie's encounter with Jean's mother Suzanne, the subtle hatred between the two women slowly escalates, nearly reaching a [stage] of vitriol at the end.

pungent sexual obscenities 
tart 
bard
vitriolic 硫酸
sulphur 硫磺

vitreous
vitriol
the subtle hatred between the two women slowly [escalates], nearly reaching a [stage] of vitriol at the end.

acrimonious
acrid
caustic 
piquant 
agreeably sharp or pungent in taste or flavor
a piquant [aspic].【詩】毒蛇, 調味肉汁
July finds her most piquant sample of enforced estrangement inside a gallery

mordant 
1. sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker, biting.
2. burning, corrosive.
3. having the property of fixing colors, as in dyeing.
and especially Ving Rhames add mordant [humor] to Cage's waking nightmare.
Radha Mitchell is rather [wan] as her chief love interest, 
but Patricia Clarkson is mordantly [funny] and surprisingly [affecting] as her German lover and drug-fiend pal.
Beleaguer


—Synonyms 
1. See fierce.

untamed; cruel, fell, brutal; barbarous, bloodthirsty, murderous. 

Fierce, ferocious, truculent suggest vehemence, and violence of temper, manner, or action: fierce in repelling a foe. 

Ferocious implies fierceness or cruelty, esp. of a bloodthirsty kind, in disposition or action: a ferocious glare; ferocious brutality toward [helpless] refugees. 

Truculent suggests an intimidating or bullying fierceness of manner or conduct: His truculent attitude kept them [terrified] and submissive. 

—Antonyms 
1. amiable, gentle.


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truculent (adj.)   
 
(pronounced TRUHK-yoo-lint) began by meaning 
"savage" but has come now mainly to mean 
"belligerent," as in 

He was truculent and spoiling for a fight. 


　 
About a thousand movies ago, I made the truculent, unprovable assertion that if Chinese grandmaster Hou Hsiao-hsien were French, he'd be the darling of the Lincoln Plazas. 


sanguine
ferocious
implies fierceness or cruelty, esp. of a bloodthirsty kind
a ferocious [beating]
ferocious brutality toward [helpless] refugees.  
pugnacious
truculent
savage & belligerent
suggests an intimidating or bullying fierceness 
his truculent [criticism] of her work
His truculent attitude kept them [terrified] and [sub]missive. 

ravenous
a famished condition
ravenous wild [beasts].
ravening
adds the idea of fierceness & savagery
ravening [wolves]. 
veracious
voracious
1. 
craving a great deal of food
a voracious [appetite].
2. 
[rapacious], [insatiable]
voracious [readers] 
After all, a moviegoer’s [imaginative] life is voracious.
Meager