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Example sentences for: thug

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Iranian authorities confiscated copies of Zan after it printed a cartoon showing a thug being asked to kill a woman rather than a man because under Islamic law a woman's "blood money" is half that of a man's.
Moral consistency requires us to do nothing in Kosovo because we can't intervene every time a thug like Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic decides to start slaughtering his own citizens.
"Milosevic is a thug.
I don't like Richie Aprile, the new thug on the block, precisely because he's such a malevolent thug, at least so far (yeah, he's a bit New Agey, but his whole yoga shtick feels forced, as if the writers decided that each and every character had to be a member of the sensitive, slightly feminized postmodern mob).
And for that devout motorcycle thug on your Christmas list, there's a black T-shirt with a skull and crossbones captioned "2 nd death" on the front and, on the back, a spiky, harsh drawing of the Crucifixion, captioned "It's hell without Jesus."