ruffianly
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He was a principal leader in the mutiny of 1857 & of a most ruffianly disposition.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2018
Russell was thoroughly and lastingly embittered against the "ruffianly" Northerners, but he still kept his reportorial objectivity, predicted that Bull Run would stimulate the North to fight harder.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the cinema their hearts, like those of a million shopgirls, beat hardest for ruffianly Clark Gable.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tough, ruffianly old Imam had moved out of his capital city of Taiz and established himself and his 40 women four miles away in the pleasure palace of Sala.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Will you be mine—my wife—after all the ruffianly words my father has said?”
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
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