Sentence examples for interpret as a thug from inspiring English sources

"What some people interpret as a thug, I call it bravado.

In what could be interpreted as a clear warning to those who claim to have been attacked by state-sponsored thugs, the newspaper quoted the chief police spokesman, Wayne Bvudzijena, as having said, "We have profiled everyone we rounded up, so that if need arises, we will always make a follow-up".

"Whether this is interpreted as a cooling is relative.

The video is immediately interpreted as a threat.

And generally interpreted as a good thing.

That ominous tweet that was interpreted as a death wish?

I regarded interpreting as a job of little consequence.

But a mere 12 months were interpreted as an insult.

For his role in acquiring the territory, Allman calls Adams "as much a thug as Jackson was".

He was also widely regarded as a thug, albeit one who performed astutely in the violent game of Iraqi politics.

Mann cast him as a thug in Thief (1981), and he remained part of Mann's unofficial repertory company.