Thesaurus / mugging
FEEDBACK- aggression
- barrage
- charge
- incursion
- intervention
- intrusion
- invasion
- offensive
- onslaught
- outbreak
- raid
- rape
- skirmish
- strike
- violation
- advance
- assailing
- blitz
- blitzkrieg
- defilement
- drive
- encounter
- encroachment
- foray
- initiative
- inroad
- irruption
- offense
- onrush
- onset
- push
- rush
- storming
- thrust
- volley
- assailment
- dirty deed
- assault
- attack
- injury
- affront
- aggression
- battery
- blitz
- blitzkrieg
- dig
- harm
- hit
- hurt
- indignation
- indignity
- injustice
- onset
- onslaught
- outrage
- push
- put-down
- slam
- slight
- snub
- zinger
- assailment
- black eye
- dirty dig
- left-handed compliment
- slap in the face
- break in
- burglary
- embezzlement
- felony
- heist
- holdup
- larceny
- looting
- theft
- wrongdoing
- caper
- hit
- job
- stickup
- thievery
- mortal sin
- purse-snatching
- unlawful act
- affront
- aggression
- assailment
- assault
- attack
- battery
- black eye
- blitz
- blitzkrieg
- dig
- dirty dig
- dudgeon
- harm
- hit
- huff
- hurt
- indignation
- indignity
- injury
- injustice
- left-handed compliment
- miff
- onset
- onslaught
- outrage
- pique
- push
- put-down
- resentment
- slam
- slap in the face
- slight
- snub
- umbrage
- zinger
- break in
- burglary
- crime
- embezzlement
- extortion
- fraud
- heist
- holdup
- larceny
- looting
- piracy
- robbery
- shoplifting
- thievery
- vandalism
- annexation
- appropriation
- caper
- cheating
- deprivation
- grab
- hustle
- job
- lift
- peculation
- pilferage
- pillage
- pinch
- plunder
- racket
- rapacity
- ripoff
- score
- snatch
- snitch
- steal
- stickup
- swindle
- thieving
- touch
- defrauding
- pilfering
- purloining
- robbing
- swindling
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use mugging in a sentence
Still, Pig gives Cage “the time and space to be sincere once again, a rare experience for him and a rewarding one for us,” a performance that “shows that underneath the lazy mugging to the cheap seats, he’s still a soulful and careful actor.”
NICOLAS CAGE BRINGS HOME THE RAVE-REVIEW BACON IN ‘PIG’HILLARY DIXLER CANAVANJULY 14, 2021EATERHer gang will be below playing cards or mugging-up or snoozing, and only two on deck seeing her home!
THE VIKING BLOODFREDERICK WILLIAM WALLACEThey were chortling, pointing at each other, mugging for the camera.
MAKERSCORY DOCTOROWI do know a certain amount about harmony already; I have been mugging it up for the last three years.
MICHAELE. F. BENSONThe shotgun squad keeps the riots, the mugging, and all the humbug out.
WARREN COMMISSION (11 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. XI (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDYEveryone admired Hill in a way, though the suspicion of “mugging” clung to him.
THE PLATTNER STORY AND OTHERSH. G. WELLSAn expression of genuine concern appeared under Ancose Mackey's solemn mugging.
TWO ON THE TRAILHULBERT FOOTNERAnd his clowning and mugging made it impossible to play a legitimate scene with him, with any shadow of professional self-respect.
THE REAL ADVENTUREHENRY KITCHELL WEBSTERFor the rest she spent August and early September in "mugging up" the firm's business.
MRS. WARREN'S DAUGHTERSIR HARRY JOHNSTONI've been mugging up that beastly drill, and can't remember a line of it.
THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING: ONE VOLUME EDITIONRUDYARD KIPLINGWORDS RELATED TO MUGGING
- advance
- aggression
- assailing
- assailment
- barrage
- blitz
- blitzkrieg
- charge
- defilement
- dirty deed
- drive
- encounter
- encroachment
- foray
- incursion
- initiative
- inroad
- intervention
- intrusion
- invasion
- irruption
- mugging
- offense
- offensive
- onrush
- onset
- onslaught
- outbreak
- push
- raid
- rape
- rush
- skirmish
- storming
- strike
- thrust
- violation
- volley
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.