thuggery
pronunciation
How to pronounce thuggery in British English:
UK [ˈθʌgəri]
How to pronounce thuggery in American English:
US [ˈθʌɡəri]
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- Noun:
- violent or brutal acts as of thugs
Word Origin
- thuggery (n.)
- 1839, from thug + -ery. Also thugee, from the native Hindi name for the system of religious assassination practiced by the thugs.
Example
- 1. The opposition , too , has a reputation for thuggery , corruption and intimidation , and does not bother much to hide it .
- 2. Far-right violence in bavaria is mostly low-level thuggery by young skinheads .
- 3. In 1837 , the year of queen victoria 's coronation , amir ali , a " thug " , travels to london from the badlands of bihar with captain william meadows , a former officer of the east india company who is chronicling ali 's wayward life and the cult of thuggery .
- 4. For most chinese observers , what happened was an outburst of vicious racist thuggery directed at ethnic han chinese in lhasa , the tibetan capital .