How To Use Thuggery In A Sentence
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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.
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It should not look like some shabby impromptu of gangsterish thuggery.
Rites and Wrongs: James Wolcott
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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.
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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
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On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality.
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Corporate thuggery is destroying the rainforests.
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On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality.
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And where does the dividing line lie between racial bias and crude, alcoholic thuggery?
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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.
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The church is the second to be damaged in what appears to be a campaign of thuggery.
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The historian Thomas Carlyle in 1839 was the first to extend the term beyond India by decrying “the Glasgow Thugs,” and he also coined thuggery.
No Uncertain Terms
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Is it mindless thuggery or as mentally demanding as a game of chess?
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Then it was destroyed by mindless thuggery.
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Vandalism and thuggery are an all-too-frequent blot on the landscape in recent years.
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Unlike conventional crime, computer thuggery frequently reaches across territorial lines, often originating from countries where the act is not illegal.
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There's no place in football for the kind of thuggery that went on out there.
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Rights lawyers, however, noted that the military has applied the term "thuggery" very broadly, covering street protesters and potentially anyone else it chooses.
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The network -- reliably thought to be based in Waziristan in Pakistan -- has much of the border regions of Af-Pak tied up, and made a true art form out of bloody-minded thuggery, extortion, murder, and bastardry.
Virginia M. Moncrieff: Clear and Present Danger: The Haqqani Network
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The clans of Tokyo's underworld have moved beyond certain rituals of an earlier era, even though they cling to a classic thuggery that involves crime families, turf wars and loyalty that's blind until it turns into clear-sighted treachery.
'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls
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If Burger gouged, that is inexcusable but, apart from that, what else did they do that was thuggery?
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And where does the dividing line lie between racial bias and crude, alcoholic thuggery?
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The tall, dark one with the angular face was Thomas; even at Ruth's age, when he'd been only four, Thomas had had a leading man's kind of handsomeness -- a combination of poise and thuggery that, in his teenage years, gave him the seeming confidence of a much older man.
Excerpt: A Widow For One Year by John Irving
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Despite a thriving democracy, the justice system has not always been successful in stopping fascist thuggery.
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But Johnson was clearly disturbed by what he characterized as "mob rule and thuggery.
Sen. Ron Johnson denounces 'mob rule'
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As an naturaluzed immigrant living in Texas, I have seen much more thuggery from the left than theright.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas
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And where does the dividing line lie between racial bias and crude, alcoholic thuggery?
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Is it mindless thuggery or as mentally demanding as a game of chess?
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As appalling as that 1968 assault was, thuggery is nothing new in politics; it transcends time, ideology and party.
Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies
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He has certainly not condoned or excused racist violence or thuggery.
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said the term "thuggery" has been used as a catchall crime since the military assumed power Feb. 11 and is so broad that people have been arrested for no reason.
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You appear to offer just a fancified version of thuggery.
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Then it was destroyed by mindless thuggery.
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This is a counterrevolutionary organization, with a long history of gangsterism and thuggery against any and all left-wing political opponents.
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Is it mindless thuggery or as mentally demanding as a game of chess?
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Virginia Attorney Gen. Ken Cuccinelli R is accusing Arlington County of engaging in "legal thuggery" with an "an egregiously frivolous" and "dirty" lawsuit against the state's proposed construction of High Occupancy Toll lanes along I-95 in Northern Virginia.
Cuccinelli accuses Arlington of playing 'dirty' with HOT lanes lawsuit
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Analysts say the president's tactics of power consolidation and political thuggery have been successful in shutting out challengers.
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The Crips was a vehicle to provide us with illusionary empowerment, payback, camaraderie, protection, thuggery, and a host of other benefits.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption
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On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality.
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