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Example sentences for: thuggish

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

Tudjman is thuggish, but he also craves the respect of the world," says Yale professor Ivo Banac, who studies Croatia.
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.
Suge, too, imitated mob style, valuing loyalty and insularity over all, surrounding himself with thuggish cronies.
Every expressive shape or shiny streak in a coat and suit bore the dread suggestion of effeminacy, connoting both a lack of integrity and an unbridled vanity felt to be unavoidable in women, but criminal, even thuggish, in men.
Joachim Neugröschel is a respected and experienced translator, but he tries too hard to turn Kinski's thuggish prose into slinky American slang.