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Ruffianism

noun
1.
Violent lawless behavior.





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"Ruffianism" Quotes from Famous Books



... outrage to realise. Then a torrent of feelings swept over me—wild fear for her I loved, and impotent fury against the miscreant who had dared even to conceive so foul a sacrilege. To think of her beauty subject to such coarse ruffianism! I pictured her bound and gagged and carried along through the brush in the bestial grasp of filthy negroes, and it seemed as though my brain would burst ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne
... once. At last the visiting players and the sympathizing crowd of thugs realized that the sentiment of the crowd would not tolerate such conduct as McCann's. The Merries were not frightened by it, and Frank had prepared to quell any outbreak of ruffianism. ...
— Frank Merriwell's Son - A Chip Off the Old Block • Burt L. Standish


Words linked to "Ruffianism" :   misdeed, misbehaviour, misbehavior


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