Example Sentences

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"We will not allow any thuggery to return ever again," he said.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

Its police officers deter crimes such as theft and thuggery while keeping the traffic flowing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

You find that in Amis too, sometimes where you least expect it: amid the apocalyptic tremors of “London Fields,” the fratricidal savagery of “The Information,” the decadence and thuggery of “Lionel Asbo.”

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

He is exporting his thuggery, and the European Union must confront him.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2021

The records of this industrial warfare are replete with lesser battles where thuggery joined hands with desperation in the struggle for wages.

From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Orth, Samuel Peter