hoodlum
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In your film, a teacher once said that James would be either a hoodlum or a great entertainer.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2021
"He’s got an edge to him. He looks like a choir boy, but he plays like … a hoodlum," Van Gundy said.
From Fox News ● Jul. 8, 2021
And, pay careful attention to a rare appearance by legendary Stooge Shemp Howard as baby-renting hoodlum Wacky and the famed dance team Rene and Estela performing the rhumba.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
Good news in today’s world is like a fugitive, treated like a hoodlum and put on the run.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2020
I am not a thug, gangster, hoodlum, nor monster.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
The authorities say the curfew is necessary because "hoodlums" have hijacked the protests in order to loot and vandalise properties.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
“Twenty years ago the employers had all the hoodlums working for them as strikebreakers,” Hoffa told a reporter in 1959.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
But once arrested, they were portrayed by the press as a gang of hoodlums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2019
Seymour Cassel, an Oscar-nominated character actor who played raconteurs, street toughs and cha-cha-dancing hoodlums and who frequently collaborated with independent filmmakers John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson, died April 7 at a hospital in Los Angeles.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2019
A pair of tsotsis, street hoodlums, listened politely.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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