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单词 thuggish
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Definition of thuggish in English:

thuggish

adjective ˈθʌɡɪʃˈθəɡɪʃ
  • Characterized by violent behaviour.

    thuggish organized crime gangs
    they have been accused of thuggish tactics
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His thuggish friends show up, scaring away his attackers.
    • He discusses the mutation of punk's angry energy into something more thuggish and mindless.
    • The sport will always be marred by thuggish fighting.
    • He has risen to be the most trusted lieutenant to a thuggish gang boss.
    • Zoot suits were seem as thuggish and anti-establishment back in the day.

Derivatives

  • thuggishly

  • adverbˈθʌɡɪʃliˈθəɡɪʃli
    • A slow-motion replay revealed that he had deliberately lashed out at an opponent, thuggishly kicking the player's ankle.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He and his partner continue to thuggishly interrogate the local townsmen, attempting to pin the crime on the local town dunce.
      • In the way that they're organized and in the way that they thuggishly behave, they remind one of the Cosa Nostra.
      • How could people behave so thuggishly, when called upon to hold a minute's silence?
      • I think that if somebody behaves thuggishly towards you, you have the right to protect yourself.
  • thuggishness

  • nounˈθʌɡɪʃnəsˈθəɡɪʃnəs
    mass noun
    • Violent behaviour.

      there can be no excuse for thuggishness and lawless behaviour
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There's none of that half-cocked, late-night thuggishness about these soldiers.
      • Maybe he is actually sensitive under his mask of thuggishness.
      • It is all too easy for seemingly small, random acts of thuggishness to escalate into an all-out brutal assault.

Rhymes

puggish, sluggish
 
 

Definition of thuggish in US English:

thuggish

adjectiveˈθəɡɪʃˈTHəɡiSH
  • Characterized by violent behavior.

    thuggish organized crime gangs
    they have been accused of thuggish tactics
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He discusses the mutation of punk's angry energy into something more thuggish and mindless.
    • His thuggish friends show up, scaring away his attackers.
    • Zoot suits were seem as thuggish and anti-establishment back in the day.
    • He has risen to be the most trusted lieutenant to a thuggish gang boss.
    • The sport will always be marred by thuggish fighting.
 
 
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