Thesaurus results for HOODLUM

hoodlum

noun

ˈhüd-ləm

as in thug

a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang a couple of hoodlums held up the convenience store

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Recent Examples of hoodlum Critics refer to the kids who covered the iconic Beaux Arts-style building as vandals and hoodlums. —

Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024 Skipping the childhood stuff, the story gets going with Eddie or Edik as a young factory worker and poet manqué in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in the 1960s after a rocky hoodlum phase which saw him getting sent by his parents to a mental hospital. —

Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024 Those protestors that Saturday didn’t look like principled advocates for anything, but more like a bunch of selfish hoodlums who need to grow up. —

Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 12 May 2024 Citizens began to ask why the supposedly omnipotent Chinese Communist Party was powerless against ragtag hoodlums in the poorest fringes of Asia’s poorest nations. —

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Noun

Although the new government seems willing to listen to Alawite concerns, there’s a lingering resentment, with many pointing to the community’s complicity in torture and war crimes — whether in the security services or gangs of thugs known as the shabiha — over the 14 years of the conflict.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
There was a time, not long ago, when men who lifted weights for fun were seen as either thugs or narcissists.

— Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025