Explore Thuggery through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like crime. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Thuggery in a sentence
Thuggery meaning
The violent, criminal acts that are associated with thugs, and/or the fashion, manner of speaking, and demeanor associated with them.
Synonyms of Thuggery
Using Thuggery
- The main meaning on this page is: The violent, criminal acts that are associated with thugs, and/or the fashion, manner of speaking, and demeanor associated with them.
- Useful related words include: crime, law-breaking.
- In the example corpus, thuggery often appears in combinations such as: thuggery and, of thuggery, and thuggery.
Context around Thuggery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thuggery
- In this selection, "thuggery" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, political, anti, insurgency, agency, ballot and society stand out and add context to how "thuggery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amount to thuggery befitting the and and political thuggery in malawi. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thuggery" sits close to words such as aayog, aghast and agitate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thuggery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The sentiments amount to, “thuggery befitting the Mafia”. (8 words)
Hip-hop is hardly still the land of thuggery. (9 words)
She slammed the “disgraceful scenes of criminal violence and thuggery”. (10 words)
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday condemned what he described as "far-right thuggery" and said perpetrators would face the full force of the law after days of violent anti-immigration protests culminated in an attack on a hotel. (40 words)
This cowardly act occurred on the sacred grounds of the convent, just a stone’s throw from Limbe Cathedral, and raises serious questions about the growing culture of impunity and political thuggery in Malawi. (34 words)
On Monday, she insisted the TV images of far-right mobs clashing with police would not damage the UK’s international reputation as a “safe haven for investment”, dismissing the protests as “thuggery”. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
He said that Yiaga Africa condemned, in unequivocal terms, acts of voter suppression fuelled by ethnic profiling, political thuggery and desperation to secure electoral victory at all costs.
Partially, I was involved o. The only thing different is that there were some situations where there was thuggery.
THE Zamfara Government Anti-thuggery Agency on Friday reiterated commitment in complementing security agencies in crime prevention in the state.
Thuggery, ballot box snatching and ballot stuffing and other forms of irregularities were rife.
After all, we have a dark history of numerous youths being easily radicalized to destabilize our nationhood through diverse acts of militancy, terrorism, insurgency, thuggery and outright anarchy.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday condemned what he described as "far-right thuggery" and said perpetrators would face the full force of the law after days of violent anti-immigration protests culminated in an attack on a hotel.
By addressing the root causes of thuggery, society can work towards creating a more harmonious and just environment for all.
I utterly condemn the far-right thuggery we’ve seen this weekend.
On Monday, she insisted the TV images of far-right mobs clashing with police would not damage the UK’s international reputation as a “safe haven for investment”, dismissing the protests as “thuggery”.
She slammed the “disgraceful scenes of criminal violence and thuggery”.
The Awami League has been thought to protect Bangladesh’s non-Muslim minorities, primarily Hindus, although through its general thuggery and cynical politics it ended up victimising them too.
The sentiments amount to, “thuggery befitting the Mafia”.
The video also fleetingly shows us how the man trying to reform had a past life in which he indulged in thuggery and other anti-social activities.
They expressed their dismay, stating that the current administration is now associated with corruption, a lack of respect for the rule of law, broken promises, abuse of power, and involvement in thuggery.
This cowardly act occurred on the sacred grounds of the convent, just a stone’s throw from Limbe Cathedral, and raises serious questions about the growing culture of impunity and political thuggery in Malawi.
This is not a culture to be celebrated it is against all tenets of civility and decency, an ugly celebration of savagery and thuggery, yet here are the police merely standing by.
Even the Kaduna elections were nearly aborted and we barely managed to survive that elections with all the budding thuggery, mudslinging, low scale bribery, etc. that took place.
Hip-hop is hardly still the land of thuggery.
The PM wrote on Twitter: “Racist thuggery has no place on our streets.
There is not only a growth of far-right thuggery, which conducts this violence, but also of obscurantist and irrational thinking.
Common combinations with thuggery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- thuggery and 13×
- of thuggery 6×
- and thuggery 6×
- political thuggery 5×
- far-right thuggery 3×
- thuggery ballot 2×
- to thuggery 2×
- in thuggery 2×
- thuggery in 2×
- violence thuggery 2×