thuggish

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Characterized by thuggery

   Characterized by thuggery; behaving in a violent or intimidating way; appearing to be violent or intimidating.

   • Their thuggish manner made continuing negotiations very difficult.
   • We were Jews—and not only were we not inferior to the goyim who beat us at football, but the chances were that because we could not commit our hearts to victory in such a thuggish game, we were superior!
   • They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.
2. 2

   Resembling or characteristic of the assassins known as thugs or thuggees (often…

   Resembling or characteristic of the assassins known as thugs or thuggees (often capitalized in this sense).

   • There are not wanting in this Christian land The breast remorseless and the Thuggish hand,

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