hoodlum
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To him, even a guy like Mike, who has an acute sense of fairness, is just another hoodlum.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
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
“I’ll leave your father to deal with your hoodlum friends this year,” she said, and went off shopping.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns described those involved in the singing as "mindless hoodlums" and called for the police to investigate the matter.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2022
The film’s high-water mark, shot with a spellbinding fluidity in a housing project, witnesses Yen’s balletic body jumping, swinging and careening through an entire neighborhood of hoodlums.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
An assistant district attorney discovers one of the hoodlums he must prosecute is the son of a former love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2020
For a while, Oliver is on the run from both cops and hoodlums and goes around with a shaved head and a fake mustache, and it’s pretty funny.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018
Eleanor, who was afraid of strange dogs and jeering women and young hoodlums, went quickly into the diner, clutching her pocketbook and her car keys.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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