"Thuggishness is their primary objective," he said of the party's campaign.

Like a lot of current pop, he could use a middle ground between thuggishness and sentimentality.

By then its thuggishness had clearly increased sympathy for the Maoists.

Even his thugs often have a sheepish simplicity about their thuggishness.

Elections have been noted for their thuggishness and dishonesty.

But the paradigm of studio thuggishness and union franticness is becoming all too familiar as the weeks pass.

He had a record of corruption, of thuggishness, brutality.

That didn't stop the oleaginous tributes, not only to the thug, but also to his very thuggishness.

The author's breezy tone seems to condone, even celebrate, Knight's thuggishness.

But few point directly at Hamas, looking instead to the overall stresses on Palestinian society and its increasing thuggishness.

What a toxic mix of self-righteousness, thuggishness and sentimentality.

But there has been a definite move in many big cities away from thuggishness as the rule and toward more enlightened, more effective strategies.

They were anti-Semites, racists and sexists and had a real thuggishness about them."

One of his front teeth is capped in silver, lending an element of thuggishness to an otherwise boyish face.

His reign was fraught with controversy and accusations by human rights activists of skullduggery and thuggishness.

In reality, thuggishness, terror, ethnic violence, family feuds and hopelessly entrenched political corruption beset him all his days.

And the thuggishness seems to have gone beyond firing prosecutors who didn't deliver the goods for the G.O.P.

“For so many years now, republicanism was equated with thuggishness . . .

Both mags downplay his thuggishness.

Opponents queried his unprecedented re-elections, attributing them to a cult of thuggishness in his party.

Although boxing purists are open to giving hip-hop a chance, a disclaimer has been voiced: keep the thuggishness and histrionics to a minimum.

Either as a matter of thuggishness (Syria) or ideology (Hamas), they reject the full humanity of other human beings.

These women make music that maps a way out of pop's current dead ends: thuggishness, saccharine romance, self-loathing and whiny hostility.

Eleanor was struck by just how menacing he'd become; nothing like the directionless thuggishness of Des, he focused his energy and anger with deadly precision.

The Oak is O.K. because his thuggishness is all the Knicks have this season.