Thuggish in a sentence

Everyone rational wants to eliminate these thuggish groups.

Senior officers admitted rowdy and thuggish behaviour by yobs towards ordinary passengers was among their most pressing concerns.

The hate marchers need to understand that decent British people have had enough of these displays of thuggish intimidation and extremism.

A thuggish military aide (Matthias Schoenaerts) becomes the dictator’s advisor and lover.

Ian McMeekin, for Hanslip, said the defendant regarded his behaviour as ‘thuggish and inexcusable’.

Salman Rushdie, supporting the writers who handed back their awards, said, “What has crept into Indian life now is a degree of thuggish violence which is new.

Trump hints that he knows what's going on with his thuggish pal -- which Jimmy says must mean he knows nothing.

Trump, in his patented thuggish style, took after Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son, who has struggled with drug addiction and alcohol abuse.

Until every preacher, pundit and politician makes it clear that this kind of thuggish behavior has no place in our state, we can make no claim to be a state of extraordinary cordiality.

Less than half a day: that’s how long it took the BBC to turn a four-year-old with pneumonia forced to lie on the floor of a hospital into a story about thuggish activists.

Ortagus responded at the time: "I don't think that that's a formal protest, that is what a thuggish regime would do.

The Romans were a bunch of thuggish imperialists.

And while some of those stories are apocryphal and some steadfastly true, Grant’s story and life are much deeper and nuanced than most think of the thuggish caricature (which he himself happily promoted).

Given its thuggish reaction to Meng’s extradition case, it doesn’t take much to imagine what China might do if disagreements arose over how to interpret a formal, signed accord.

In short, although he holds on to a valuable piece of real estate in PK5, Nimery is just one thuggish warlord among many.

In the front courtyard there is also a collection of some of the cruel devices the thuggish extremists used to interrogate and torture the prisoners.

We're seeing thuggish Bolsonaro supporters breaking Mariele's plaque and boasting in public, threatening people on the street for wearing left-wing or anti-Bolsonaro t-shirts.

Its new police force proved to be a major improvement in outlook and behavior over its thuggish predecessor but was not fully able to deter crime.