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.

  • But there is something to the argument that his cavalier attitude about individual rights helped to create an atmosphere in which thuggish members of his administration could regard invasions of privacy very lightly.

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

  • Tudjman is thuggish, but he also craves the respect of the world," says Yale professor Ivo Banac, who studies Croatia.

  • 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.


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