Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Nigel Farage, leader of the opposition Reform UK party, has gone on social media to say he does not support "street protests, violence or thuggery in any way".

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024

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

It has a way of blinding people from the thuggery right in front of them.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2022

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