Definition of "thuggish" []

• Of or pertaining to thuggery. (adjective)

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• "The usual caveat about asking opinions of people in thuggish, authoritarian regimes applies in her case."
• "What we have would be better described as thuggish paramilitary units occupying what they regard as hostile territory."
• "What we have would be better described as thuggish paramilitary units occupying what they regard as hostile territory: like any occupying force, the people they go after the first and the hardest are generally the people who are most vulnerable, and like any other occupying force there is no real recourse for anything they may choose to do on their patrols."