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How to pronounce thuggery in English?

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Type of crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking

Examples of thuggery

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He made the tough choice in the face of union thuggery and managed to save jobs.
From the bostonherald.com
Low-level thuggery has often marred red-shirt protests in Bangkok and elsewhere.
From the economist.com
Hence officials'readiness to turn a blind eye to the thuggery of eviction squads.
From the economist.com
By its very nature, those who know little about MMA presume thuggery and worse.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
The indiscriminate thuggery had damaged Sadr's reputation among average Iraqis.
From the time.com
But thuggery sooner or later is exposed and courage sooner or later overcomes it.
From the ocregister.com
Only through preelection intimidation, thuggery, assassinations, and the like.
From the newsweek.com
I think there's a line between aggressive, hard-nosed basketball and thuggery.
From the freep.com
There has also been a worrying tolerance for thuggery by Islamist vigilantes.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Violent or brutal acts as of thugs
  • Thuggee or tuggee (Hindi: Nepali u0920u0917u094Du0917u0940 u1E6Dhaggu012B; Urdu: u0679u06BEu06AFu200E; Sanskrit: sthaga; Sindhi: u067Au0648u06B3u064Au060C u067Au06B3u200E; Kannada: u0CA0u0C95u0CCDu0C95 thakka) refers to the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers. Thugs travelled in groups across South Asia for six hundred years...