ruffianly

We won't stay for news out here in the cold and the wet, a ruffianly evening.

I had pictured him as a more robust and ruffianly person.

On foot, the warriors had an even more ruffianly appearance.

A ruffianly attack by street thieves, we've been told.

And there's a man named Hoddan who's supposed to head a particularly ruffianly gang.

There was a ruffianly crew aboard, in charge of a dapper, rather handsome young white man.

He's better than any ruffianly bodyguard or holiday tutor.

The nine fantastic looking cabalgadores closed about the ruffianly Aguilino.

It is upon that date, as I am informed, that that ruffianly glove fight takes place.

The idea of her wanting to trapeze the high-road to-day when all these ruffianly soldiers are still about.

What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves?

She stared at the Prince in stupid amazement, which so amused her ruffianly son, that he burst into a roar of laughter.

There was a comradeship among men of gentle blood and bearing which banded them together against all ruffianly or unchivalrous attack.

Then into the chamber trooped a foul and ruffianly band, led by a pot-bellied rogue in enormous boots.

The poet's sympathy ought, perhaps, to have been, if not with the false and ruffianly Henry, at least with Henry's side of the question.

Blakeney, with all his sympathy aroused for this poor pale-faced lad, put on the airs of a ruffianly bully.

A ruffianly English soldier comes through the curtains and marches between Dunois and Joan.

She had discovered that she was very much afraid of Meleagrant, and even more afraid of his ruffianly men-at-arms.

The ruffianly captain, in his tattered, mud-stained uniform, stands in the doorway--for one moment only.

My dear fellow," says Harold, bowin' to Miss Vincent, "there is no excuse for addressing me before these ladies and gentlemen in that ruffianly manner.

I did not want to take him aboard the Nojo Ganja for fear his suspicions might be aroused by the ruffianly appearance of the officers and crew.

Some one, apparently growing angry, was saying: "Good Gad, man, are we to sit idle and let these ruffianly thieves make off with our money--children--wives!"

Most of the others aft were of mixed nationalities, and a ruffianly crowd they were, too; and the barque was armed like a privateer of fifty years ago.

Even the publisher Fitzgerald had given speeches decrying "the worst caprices of a ruffianly police force." And witnesses were saying Gordon's attacker was a policeman out of uniform.

He suggested that she should go to Augustus and complain that she had been ill treated by her ruffianly husband and would not be happy until she had a divorce.