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thuggery

[ US /ˈθəɡɝi/ ]
[ UK /θˈʌɡəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. violent or brutal acts as of thugs

How To Use thuggery In A Sentence

  • They will never even dare raise the question of thuggery with us, as we work with the lumpenproletariat closely; in fact they are somewhat concerned for their own well-being.
  • It should not look like some shabby impromptu of gangsterish thuggery. Rites and Wrongs: James Wolcott
  • When people in the North repeatedly turn out to vote for sectarian demagoguery and backstreet thuggery above all available normal democratic alternatives, then they have not delivered a verdict which needs to be respected.
  • And then, an old one that has new life, Ethan Zuckerman reflected upon DOS and other "cyberwar" tactics in the context of Israel, writing back then that "forming groups to shut down websites looks a lot like gang thuggery to me. Iran Roundup: Facts and Framing
  • On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality. Times, Sunday Times
  • Corporate thuggery is destroying the rainforests.
  • On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality. Times, Sunday Times
  • And where does the dividing line lie between racial bias and crude, alcoholic thuggery? Times, Sunday Times
  • Egypt's de facto head of state said Tuesday that the military government would limit its use of extrajudicial arrests and detentions to cases of what he called "thuggery. NYT > Home Page
  • The church is the second to be damaged in what appears to be a campaign of thuggery.
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