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truculent-adjective [truhk-yuh-luhnt, troo-kyuh-]
1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2. brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work.
3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.

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His article exposing the political scandal that had taken place was unnecessarily truculent.