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ruffianly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective ruffianly has 1 sense
- ruffianly(s = adj.all) tough - violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs" Derived form noun ruffian1
CIDE DICTIONARY
ruffianly, a.
Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
ruffianly
bad, boorish, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, disorderly, disruptive, hooliganish, improper, loobyish, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, misbehaving, naughty, not respectable, off-base, out-of-line, raffish, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, unbehaving, yokelish
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