“Suddenly a gang of young hoodlums enters, led by a thug named Frankie McCarthy.”

“The rise in gang-related thuggery in the city has prompted the police to increase their efforts in curbing violence and ensuring public safety.”

“The church is the second to be damaged in what appears to be a campaign of thuggery.”

“It was a horrible bit of thuggery, to be sure, but the sheer cloddishness of the crime soon overwhelmed the outrage.”

“His theatricality, even more than his energy and sense of rhythm, sets him apart from the monotonous blowhards of thugdom.”

“They had fashioned it from the stuff of which the Executioner was made and fanned it to life with the spreading flames of rampant thugdom.”

“Have the days of thugdom returned to the metropolitan newspaper business?”

“These settlers demonstrated the strength of their pluralistic democracy compared with the thugocracy we have come to expect of their neighbours.”

“I was a Deep House dancer, he says. And I loved the club scene: Octagon, Tunnel, Red Zone, Mars, Sound Factory, Wild Pitch. It was my escape from the neighborhood and all the thugness.”

“He became famous for his portraits of Glasgow thugs and the drawings he made as the UK's official war artist in Bosnia.”

“This is a clear indication that the terrorist thugs are on the warpath against the state.”

“A gang of thugs who lay in wait before attacking a man with a baseball bat and an iron bar could strike again, say detectives.”