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In her statement, Kim Yo-jong briefly mentioned Hodge’s comments before saying the United States “is letting loose a hackneyed gibberish prompted by its brigandish and abnormal thinking.”

From Washington Times • May 31, 2023

In her statement, Kim Yo Jong briefly mentioned Hodge’s comments before saying the United States “is letting loose a hackneyed gibberish prompted by its brigandish and abnormal thinking.”

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2023

He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars— the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's.

From Time Magazine Archive

His air would be regarded as violently brigandish in our day; we might even go so far as to think his whole appearance comical.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

He is a brigandish and bearded person in a foraging cap, leaning forward to rest himself on his gun.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway