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Violent or brutal acts as of thugs
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thuggery
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Word definitions for thuggery in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thuggery \Thug"ger*y\, Thuggism \Thug"gism\, n. Thuggee.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ What should stop is the paternalistic and well-meaning indulgence of the sub-culture of thuggery .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The violent act of thugs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, from thug + -ery . Also thugee , from the native Hindi name for the system of religious assassination practiced by the thugs.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. violent or brutal acts as of thugs
Usage examples of thuggery.
All the thuggery would have been pinned on Rydal here, once he was dead, like Buram.
Indeed, how easily he could have fallen into a life of thuggery, playing the role of one of the Black Kite's bullies as so many young men of Haven did.
They were the ones who had the easiest access to Albrecht and his cohorts, the ingrained habits of thuggery to fall back upon, and could most easily intimidate the populace into revealing the hidey-holes of those noblemen who managed to escape the initial slaughter.