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The baron's pallid face looked more bloodless, his accent was fiercer, and his countenance more ruffianly as he uttered all this.

The inhabitants were mostly ruffianly characters, who lived by the plunder they obtained from the vessels wrecked on their shores.

Taking their cue from him, these had become more and more insolent, ruffianly, and bullying in their demeanour.

Ruffianly men came from all parts of the country; insolent, strife-provoking thugs.

This poor thing was obliged to punish a school-child, the daughter of one of the bargemen on the Thames, a huge ruffianly man.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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