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How to use tough guy in a sentence

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Given those credentials, the character cries out for an old-school tough guy approach.
A tough guy wants Groucho and his brother Zeppo to plug a rival with the gats he gave them.
I'm not talking about the loveable grump who means well, or some kind of gruff tough guy with a spongy-soft interior.
During his TV appearances at this time, on chat-shows and as a guest star, he tended to undermine this tough guy screen image.
Although we're told he's a rich boy, he's portrayed as a working-class tough guy, the sort of wife-beating trailer trash Hollywood loves to hate.
So, in a one-on-one situation against the local tough guy, can a judo person subdue the bully?
For all his kindness, Ben was also legendarily a tough guy, and only a tough guy could have made his choices.
A lumbersexual may appear to be a tough guy, but you can bet he put lots of thought into his outfit.
The next day my next-door neighbor, who is a bit of a tough guy, bawled me out for not calling the cops.
Mr. R. was a big, burly tough guy who melted when he had to give his girls away.
Carl gathered that the man was trying to compensate for the obvious lack of prestige with a tough guy attitude.
He always finishes his checks and you hate playing against guys like that, rather than a tough guy who just knows how to fight.
The critics hailed him as a major movie tough guy as the film became an instant box-office hit.
But Sawyer got his feelings hurt because of her concern for Jack and reverted to his tough guy, hard shell persona.
A player might start out not looking very tough, but he develops a thick hide and becomes a tough guy at the height of his abilities.
The two detectives are a hard-edged tough guy and a showboating, overconfident rookie.
He is no tough guy of the American pattern, forever punching out or shooting down his adversaries.
Finally, he's the character we love to see dying first: Bigheaded Fredo is playing tough guy without having the pans for it.
I thought I was a pretty tough guy but I cried...there wasn't a dry eye in the place.
Keabetswe cruises down the noisy streets of Kanye, Botswana, faking a casual confidence and trying to play the tough guy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Even Brock, in spite of his attitude of the tough guy watching over a little girl, was under your control to a certain degree.
One tough guy in the Sugar Creek territory was enough to keep us all on the lookout all the time for different kinds of trouble.
Eric Lawson, the tough guy with the lantern jaw whose tanned, leathery face adorned a million billboards, succumbed to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Suppertime came and, as usual, my dad Tough Guy slid his favorite fold-up camping chair to the head of the table.
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