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词根:thuggee
n.thuggee 谋财害命;杀人越货行为
noun
see usage paragraph below a violent or brutish criminal or bully a gang of thugs … in American History X, Norton … plays a vicious young Venice Beach thug, a racist skinhead with … a thick black swastika tattooed over one bulging pec, and a gleam of murder in his eye.—Owen Gleiberman An authoritarian government willing to use the most brutal means to hold on to power; a dictator whose thugs have murdered, tortured, imprisoned or intimidated tens of thousands of civilians …—Michiko Kakutani
a brutal thug
a member of a group of murderous robbers in India's past whose activities were suppressed in the early 19th century
1839年,源自 thug 和 -ery。还有 thugee,源自印地语中用于描述 thugs 宗教暗杀系统的名称。
Hindi & Urdu ṭhag, literally, thief
The first known use of thug was in 1839
thumb1 of 2noun
the short thick first finger of the human hand next to the index finger
the similar structure in lower animals
the part of a glove or mitten that covers the thumb
thumb2 of 2verb
to turn pages with the thumb
thumb through a book
to seek or get a ride in a passing automobile by sticking out one's thumb
thumb1 of 2noun
the short thick first finger of the human hand next to the index finger
the similar structure in lower animals
the part of a glove or mitten that covers the thumb
thumb2 of 2verb
to turn pages with the thumb
thumb through a book
to seek or get a ride in a passing automobile by sticking out one's thumb
thuliumnoun
a soft rare metallic element see element
thugnoun
ruffian
thugnoun
ruffian
thugnoun
ruffian
1 “The kind of thuggery that has been going on in politics must stop, like yesterday,” said Job Mokgoro, the former premier of North West province, which includes Lichtenburg.
2 The thing about the bloodthirsty Richard, who ascends to power through lies, dirty tricks and thuggery, is that on some level he’s a spellbinder.
3 Ongoing police thuggery and brutality – again, black folks must always forgive.
4 Frightened though Smith is, she is even more outraged that so many others knuckle under to McCarthy’s blatant thuggery.
5 Today’s Republican Party and the larger “conservative” movement are trying to impose “a state of exception” on American society, where intimidation, thuggery, violence and terrorism are “acceptable” means for them to get and keep power.
6 A thundering herd of wild animals takes to the pitch, largely dependent on passion, courage and borderline thuggery rather than anything approaching skill.
7 The intervening years have brought many more portrayals of gangland thuggery, but this one still stings with its vision of unremitting violence.
8 But by crippling a major capital, subverting commerce and jobs, and advocating the overthrow of a fairly elected government, they have surged beyond legitimate protest into the realm of thuggery.
9 Dureghello described the “thuggery” in Rome as a “grave, painful phenomenon, organized by those who want to create disorder on one hand and orient consensus” by drawing on prejudice in Italian society.
10 In the hours after the attack last year, Thune expressed frustration, calling the rioting “thuggery” and connecting Trump’s calls for demonstrations to the insurrection.
11 The evidence shows, however, that the types of "reforms" given lip service by the country's mainstream political leaders and other opinion leaders are ineffective at actually stopping police thuggery and brutality.
12 An early adopter of underground music in London, Goodman was dubious about dubstep's plodding pace towards mid-range bass thuggery when most people were still hearing it for the first time.
13 But it is the Israel Defense Force’s code of ethics — its tohar neshek, or commitment to a purity of arms — that distinguishes it from the wholesale slaughter and wanton pogroms of Hamas thuggery.
14 This is one reason the corporate thuggery that is destroying the rainforests is so criminal.
所以商业公司破坏雨林的屠杀是如此的罪恶.
15 The prisons hold bloggers, business executives, artists, performers and journalists, many arrested in the aftermath of the 2020 vote, a testament to Mr. Lukashenko’s thuggery.
16 Given rampant police brutality and thuggery against African-Americans is there a need for 21st century version of the Green Book?
17 America's police will not stop targeting Black and brown communities for thuggery and violence because that is how the system is designed.
18 Algiers isn’t shy about its embrace of high-minded modernism backed by the force of any and all of the music they love, be it ’80s hardcore thuggery or the roller-rink romance sounds of Miami freestyle.
19 In the case of “Amish Mafia,” thuggery and self-promotion certainly appear to be higher priorities of the featured “bosses” than the tenants of Amish religion.
20 But the play maintains its momentum in the second half, and the idea of Rome as a city of thuggery and superstition is balanced by the cerebral debate about the morality of murder.