thuggish

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Characterized by thuggery; behaving in a violent or intimidating way; appearing to be violent or intimidating. derogatory
    — Their thuggish manner made continuing negotiations very difficult.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of the assassins known as thugs or thuggees (often capitalized in this sense). obsolete
    — […] beside the deceitfulness of the heart and the carnality common to all men, the deep ignorance of the heathen, the abjectness of their social condition, their vain but venerated traditions, their time-honored customs of profligacy, impelling to infanticide, parricide, Thuggish murders, and cannibalism—all conflict steadily with the holiest efforts to transform them into symmetrical Christians.

词形变化

more thuggish comparative most thuggish superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
thuggishly thuggishness unthuggish

词源

Etymology tree
English thug
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English thuggish
From thug + -ish.
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