Sentence examples for thug as from inspiring English sources

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile it didn't bother me if he was an aristocrat or a thug as long as he was a good guy.

To an extent, the racism charge rings true – what with knucke-dragging racists running to Twitter to call Sherman a thug as well as a lot of worse names.

Prosecutors called him a well-connected, "well-paid thug" as the eight-week trial wrapped up.

The thug as sentimentalist – or rather (which he is loath to admit) as human being.

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

In this film he's a gentle giant who used to be a thug: as the movie opens, his character, Ray Bradstone, is being released after seven years in prison.

This same dynamic explains why Russia, despite its well-educated population, has so little innovation: As likely as not, innovators will be pushed aside by government thugs as soon as they achieve success and profits.

So the Bushies no longer care if Osama sends a coded message to his thugs as long as he stays on message for the White House?

Peaceful protesters outside parliament against the new laws have been attacked by the government's thugs, as well as by the security forces, and many people have been injured.

The governor is surrounded by a typical southern political gallery of allies and thugs, as well as Burden, who had turned his back on his genteel upbringing to become Stark's amanuensis.

Whether this important period in Nigeria's history is peaceful will partly depend on the behaviour of the politicians and their hired thugs, as well as the determination of militant Islamist group Boko Haram to disrupt democracy.