Example sentences for: thuggish

How can you use “thuggish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.

  • Peter Fonda's comeback--as a stoic beekeeper facing down his convict son's thuggish friends--is called his first worthy performance since Easy Rider (1969).

  • Years ago, some people had a prurient interest in these, such as those who went to the funeral of the thuggish Hollywood producer Harry Cohn to make sure that he was dead.

  • Joachim Neugröschel is a respected and experienced translator, but he tries too hard to turn Kinski's thuggish prose into slinky American slang.

  • Suge, too, imitated mob style, valuing loyalty and insularity over all, surrounding himself with thuggish cronies.


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