truculent
adjective
°Of things or persons that are cruel or savage.
"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."
synonyms: barbarous, cruel, ferocious, fierce more» , savage, deadly, destructive, defiant, inflexible, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding