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Definition of Thuggery
1. Noun. Violent or brutal acts as of thugs.
Definition of Thuggery
1. n. Thuggee.
Definition of Thuggery
1. Noun. The violent act of thugs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thuggery
1. thuggish behavior [n -GERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thuggery
Literary usage of Thuggery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federal Reserve Monster by Wallace Campbell, Sam H. Clark (1922)
"The method of Federal Reserve thuggery at this point was to hold out and hoard
up a mass of checks and present them at one time over ..."
2. The Federal Reserve Monster by Wallace Campbell, Sam H. Clark (1922)
"In fact it was and is a damsite too "open" to suit the Federal Reserve thuggery!
Now look at the venom spat out by this Federal Reserve octopus at the ..."
3. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"His declaration to the Chicago Federation was thus worded: "We cannot win by
thuggery or violence. Brutality only grows. If we had to win by that method, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"There can be no doubt, for example, that thuggery belongs to this class.
The goddess of thuggery is the Dravidian mother-monster, to whom as symbolizing the ..."
5. Chartism by Thomas Carlyle (1840)
"Glasgow thuggery,' 'Glasgow Thugs ;' it is a witty nickname: the practice of '
Number 60' ... Glasgow thuggery, Chartist torch-meetings, Birmingham riots, ..."
6. Life of A. P. Dostie; Or, The Conflict of New Orleans by Emily Hazen Reed (1868)
"thuggery—offspring of the "pet institution"—scrutinized with a watchful eye all
inovations, designated " reforms." Lucien Adams, chief of the Thugs in New ..."
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