Word Meanings - RUFFIANLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• BRUTAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton. 2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.
• BRUTALLY
  In a brutal manner; cruelly.
• VIOLENT
  probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
• RUFFIANLIKE
  Ruffianly. Fulke.
• RUFFIANISH
  Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.
• RUFFIANAGE
  Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians. "The vilest ruffianage." Sir F. Palgrave.
• RUFFIAN
  libertine, ake; cf. pr. & Sp. rufian, It. ruffiano; all perhaps of German or Dutch origin; cf. G. raufen to pluck, scuffle, fight, OD. 1. A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour. he is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, reveling with
• BRUTALISM
  Brutish quality; brutality.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• VIOLENTLY
  In a violent manner.
• BRUTALITY
  1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness. 2. An inhuman act. The . . . brutalities exercised in war. Brougham.
• BRUTALIZE
  To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• RUFFIANLY
  Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.
• BRUTALIZATION
  The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.
• RUFFIANOUS
  Ruffianly. Chapman.