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- adverb In a
thuggish way.
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Bloomberg\'s Word Choice Still Under Fire'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Four days after the city\'s transit strike ended, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was still coming under fire for his use of the word "thuggishly" to describe the actions of the leaders of a union that is mostly minority ... another sensitivity chip missing?'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bloomberg's Word Choice Still Under Fire 2005
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Four days after the city's transit strike ended, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was still coming under fire for his use of the word 'thuggishly' to describe the actions of the leaders of a union that is mostly minority ... another sensitivity chip missing?
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bloomberg's Word Choice Still Under Fire 2005
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Is there necessarily any connection between favoring a low tax, small government society and empowering policemen to act thuggishly?
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How does that ideology dictate empowering policemen to act thuggishly?
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Leonard b/c of his tendency to act more thuggishly than Adams.
Reader poll: Who's worse, Adams or Leonard? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I would cite Zimbabwe as a country where Mr. Mugabe has thuggishly held onto power for so long.
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I would cite Zimbabwe as a country where Mr. Mugabe has thuggishly held onto power for so long.
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I would cite Zimbabwe as a country where Mr. Mugabe has thuggishly held onto power for so long.
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Since then, every American girl in Paris dreams of donning Jean Seberg's pixie haircut and stand-offish manner in hopes of luring a thuggishly handsome Frenchman like Jean Paul Belmondo's Michel, after only five (according to him), or three (according to her) nights of passion, who would then ask her to go on the lam to Rome with him.
Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: The Enduring Magic of Breathless 2010
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Tamer Hassan, king of the British B-movie, stars as the thuggishly avuncular Pat Kane, who dons various outfits as he wades from triumph to disaster.
Bonded by Blood 2010
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