| Many details come in of yesterday's brutal, cowardly ruffianism and plunder. |
| He was a fine compound of ruffianism, shrewdness, and a sort of caustic humour. |
| All ruffianism affronts me, and actions legitimate in others are crimes in me. |
| It was unnecessary to admit for a moment the existence of impudence or ruffianism. |
| And the state tolerated ruffianism so long as disorder was kept at a minimum, and its authority was not fundamentally challenged. |
| Loverboy's tormentors are Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, John Hurt, Ian McShane and Ray Winstone, an honor guard of refined ruffianism. |
