Ruffian in a sentence as a noun

Yeah, but how many high school ruffians today speak and write fluent Latin?

Take a look at who the so-called "ruffians" were, and you'll see this cycle continue all over again.

And even if we avoid all that you could still step outside and be shot or stabbed by a ruffian who leaves you dead all the same.

The ***** will never expect it and beg God to get rid of this ruffian, troublemaker layabout.

Let us converse is secret tongue of assembly, lest those higher language ruffians understand us.

They shouldn't be relegated to the ruffians and pirates on the fringes using risky circumvention techniques to achieve their goals.

You're arguing that AI will lead to much more nuanced discourse, and much more complex and detailed pros and cons rather than the ruffian binary polarization we have now, and I agree.

So, in other words, I as the user contributing reviews for which makes Yelp valuable, are treated as a de facto ruffian, my time and effort expended to "share" considered folly.

Rugby in the UK has a rather odd relationship with elite education:"Football is a gentleman's game played by ruffians, and rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen.

When she returned in tears, Gandhi “cackled” with laughter at her and said: “If some ruffian had carried you off and you had met your death courageously, my heart would have danced with joy.""This is more than a 'drinking problem'.

" George Washington"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property.

"Thomas Paine: "The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.

You are perfectly right to question the piratical adjective to describe the entire empire in Marco-Polo contemporary times; that was my error - recently I read a history of the Venetian seafaring which made out that basically the city grew entirely from a den of swamp-dwelling brigands and ruffians who dwelt there to escape the long arm of other mainland powers.

I mean, it's a game where the music is period music, where each Native American nation actually feels like its own unique culture where both cooperating or looting them can have far-reaching consequences and be a viable strategy for the Euro settlers, where you can crash the Euro economy and even screw with the economy of your neighbor colony's supply chain, where Privateers have secret national alliances appearing as unaligned ruffians...and so, so much more.

Ruffian definitions

noun

a cruel and brutal fellow

See also: bully tough hooligan roughneck rowdy yobo yobbo