hoodlums
Example Sentences
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Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns described those involved in the singing as "mindless hoodlums" and called for the police to investigate the matter.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2022
An assistant district attorney discovers one of the hoodlums he must prosecute is the son of a former love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2020
“Twenty years ago the employers had all the hoodlums working for them as strikebreakers,” Hoffa told a reporter in 1959.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
Seymour Cassel, an Oscar-nominated character actor who played raconteurs, street toughs and cha-cha-dancing hoodlums and who frequently collaborated with independent filmmakers John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson, died April 7 at a hospital in Los Angeles.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2019
And the children that Mae gave him ran the streets like hoodlums and bragged about their father owning a saloon.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
