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thuggish
Word definitions for thuggish in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ There was nothing thuggish about him but he looked like a gymnast.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ruffianly, brutal and forceful," 1870, from thug + -ish . Related: Thuggishly ; thuggishness .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to thuggery.
Usage examples of thuggish.
When the thuggish mullahs jailed blogger Sina Motallebi, fury roiled the blogosphere.
It would be up to the thuggish pair to dispose of their victim, while Silk Marron went his own way with the remainder of the band.
Now the city was famed for recidivist Communism and thuggish politics, for the Semtex explosives manufactured on its outskirts, for dispirited pottery and rudimentary wine.
He was a Croatian, one of those thuggish fanatics more national socialist than Goebbels himself, and considerably less endowed with charm.