Crossword clues for thuggery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thuggery \Thug"ger*y\, Thuggism \Thug"gism\, n. Thuggee.
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.
Wiktionary
n. The violent act of thugs.
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.