When we were touring on a riverboat near Dandong, the truculent North Korean soldiers from the other side of the river gave us a steely-eyed death stare.
defiantly aggressive; "as truculent as a small boy who thinks his big brother can lick anybody" aggressively hostile; "a truculent speech against the new government
If you say that someone is truculent, you mean that they are bad-tempered and aggressive. = belligerent + truculence trucu·lence `Your secretary said you'd be wanting a cleaner,' she announced with her usual truculence. = belligerence. bad-tempered and always willing to argue with people (truculentus, from trux )