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- noun The quality or state of being
thuggish .
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Obviously, we're generalizing here: it's not clear how widespread this attitude really is on the right, and we don't know exactly how much of this kind of thuggishness there has even been so far, much less how whether there is more to come.
Politics Amy Kingsley 2010
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Obviously, we're generalizing here: it's not clear how widespread this attitude really is on the right, and we don't know exactly how much of this kind of thuggishness there has even been so far, much less how whether there is more to come.
Politics Gabriel Winant 2010
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Obviously, we're generalizing here: it's not clear how widespread this attitude really is on the right, and we don't know exactly how much of this kind of thuggishness there has even been so far, much less how whether there is more to come.
Politics Amy Kingsley 2010
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Obviously, we're generalizing here: it's not clear how widespread this attitude really is on the right, and we don't know exactly how much of this kind of thuggishness there has even been so far, much less how whether there is more to come.
Politics Amy Kingsley 2010
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Then there was the crudeness, the thuggishness, of the way the Kremlin operated at times.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Then there was the crudeness, the thuggishness, of the way the Kremlin operated at times.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The anti-intellectual thuggishness of numerous comments on this thread is quite remarkable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A View from an Incoming Harvard 1L 2010
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Off topic, and sort of lowering the level of discourse from policy to politics: CPAC reminds me that the problem with the other side is not just obstructionism, but raw thuggishness.
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The anti-intellectual thuggishness of numerous comments on this thread is quite remarkable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A View from an Incoming Harvard 1L 2010
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If so, is it something like, “Anti-discrimination laws will lead to a slippery slope that will tend to result in Mugabe-style brutality, thuggishness and collapse of the rule of law”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 2010
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