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thuggish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thuggish
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ There was nothing thuggish about him but he looked like a gymnast.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thuggish
"ruffianly, brutal and forceful," 1870, from thug + -ish. Related: Thuggishly; thuggishness.
Wiktionary
thuggish
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.