thuggishlyadv.
/ˈθʌɡᵻʃli/, U.S. /ˈθəɡᵻʃli/ In a thuggish manner; violently or aggressively.
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1887 Puck 2 Feb. 379/2 President Dwight, of Yale University, is evidently trying to nullify all the pleasant mutual advances that have been made during the past few years, by this country and England. He has Thuggishly sent a toboggan of Hartford make to the Dean of Canterbury.
1956 Facts Forum News Dec. 47/1 A prominent school official in Buffalo, New York..noted in his handling of juveniles how shabbily and 'thuggishly' they dressed.
1968 Economist 29 June p. xxxix/2 The local governments that will arise there [sc. South Africa]..should have some influence in seeing that present pass laws and other evils are less wickedly and thuggishly applied.
2017 Sc. Express (Nexis) 13 Aug. (Letters section) 31 Sunday junior kickabouts can be unappetising affairs these days, brattish players backed up by thuggishly determined parents.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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