Ruffians synonyms

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yobboes
A yob.
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rowdies
A person whose behavior is rough, quarrelsome, and disorderly; hoodlum
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roughnecks
A rowdy.
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hooligans
A tough and aggressive or violent youth.
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toughs
(Informal) A tough person; thug
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bullies
(Uncountable) Bully beef.
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brutes
Someone with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. [from 17th c.]
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villains
Something said to be the cause of particular trouble or an evil:
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thugs
A cutthroat or ruffian; a hoodlum.
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scoundrels
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.
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punks
A punk rocker.
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monsters
An extremely cruel or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
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hoodlums
A tough, often aggressive or violent youth.
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hoods
(Slang) neighborhood.
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gangsters
The definition of a gangster is a criminal who is a member of an organized gang or crime ring.
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desperados
A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
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cutthroats
A murderer who slits the throats of his victims.
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miscreants
One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
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gorillas
A thug.
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goons
A ruffian or thug, esp. one hired to help break a strike, etc.
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toughies
A thug; a tough.
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mugs
(Chiefly British Slang) A victim or dupe.
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rascals (related)
The definition of a rascal is a person who is playfully mischievous or badly behaved.
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attacks (related)
The initial movement in a task or undertaking:
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  • In 1856, at the very time when " border ruffians " were drawing their lines closer about the doomed town of Lawrence, Kansas, Sumner in the Senate (May 19-20) laid bare the Crime against Kansas."

  • It again, however, became the resort of pirates, and the names of many of the worst of these ruffians are associated with New Providence; the notorious Edward Teach, called Blackbeard, who was afterwards killed in action against two American ships in 1718, being chief among the number.

  • The Spaniards have had much trouble with the neighbouring tribes - turbulent Ruffians, hardly subject to the sultan of Morocco.

  • In Paris the armed ruffians who had long preyed upon respectable citizens were organized as a revolutionary army, and other revolutionary armies were established in the provinces.

  • After the murder the captain let the two ruffians go ashore and locked himself in his cabin.

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