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Example sentences for: thug

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The Vanity Fair story, by rival investigative reporter Robert Sam Anson, flayed Hersh as a greedy journalistic thug who blackmails sources.
The movie might have been unbearably depressing if Old Man Dunphy had been the thug of Farrelly's novel.
A 13-year-old boy interviewed by the Los Angeles Times pays her the ultimate adolescent male compliment: "Michelle Akers, she's my thug."
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USAT , the LAT , and the NYT all go front page with the news that choke-out thug Latrell Sprewell was given his gazillion dollar contract back by an arbitrator.