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单词 thuggish
释义

thuggish

/ˈθʌɡɪʃ /
adjective
Characterized by violent behaviour: thuggish organized crime gangs they have been accused of thuggish tactics...
  • He has risen to be the most trusted lieutenant to a thuggish gang boss.
  • The sport will always be marred by thuggish fighting.
  • His thuggish friends show up, scaring away his attackers.

Derivatives

thuggishly

/ˈθʌɡɪʃli / adverb ...
  • I think that if somebody behaves thuggishly towards you, you have the right to protect yourself.
  • How could people behave so thuggishly, when called upon to hold a minute's silence?
  • He and his partner continue to thuggishly interrogate the local townsmen, attempting to pin the crime on the local town dunce.

thuggishness

/ˈθʌɡɪʃnəs / noun ...
  • Maybe he is actually sensitive under his mask of thuggishness.
  • There's none of that half-cocked, late-night thuggishness about these soldiers.
  • It is all too easy for seemingly small, random acts of thuggishness to escalate into an all-out brutal assault.

Rhymes

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