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If anything the adjectives 'lawless' and 'thuggish' are too weak to use to describe Assad's misbehaviour, not too strong to apply to lesser criminals.

I think thuggish behavior means you should consider their feelings less, not more.

It respects neither the letter not the spirit of the law, and it makes Canonical look thuggish and crass.

Just one incident of a citizen defending themselves would see the immediate halting of these kinds of thuggish tactics.

It apparently hopes to ensure the security of The State with thuggish threats, and nothing more.

How can anyone look at this kind of thuggish behavior and celebrate its results?

Mother Teresa would adopt thuggish behavior after five minutes on the force.

The US has a quality and performance problem with thuggish cops.

Those owners would consider the business practices of Yelp and (I guess) Foursquare thuggish.

Police unions are a special kind of thuggish killer-protection union, I would not lump them in with the rest of public sector unions.

I'm no huge fan of Uber, but when I read this story it isn't Uber that strikes me as acting like thuggish a##holes.

I sometimes feel like I'm living in the world of the movie Brazil, a nightmare of bureaucracy and thuggish government with sprinklings of technological toys.

Even governments' thuggish tactics, like the grounding of Evo Morales's plane and the nine-hour "terror" questioning of David Miranda, are generating headlines and outrage.

Then yeah, he's well in the green to refer to them as "thugs" because he's describing what some would consider "thuggish" behavior.

I'm sure Pablo Escobar would have gladly given up his thuggish ways in exchange for decent shelf placement in retail establishments and ads featuring "Escobar's Finest Blend.

I'd just prefer that we stick to the main point -- that the "anarchists"' actions were basically thuggish and coercive in nature, that is to say, anything but "anarchistic." Anything else (e.g.