ruffianly

ADJECTIVE

tough

Synonyms

STRONGEST

desperate fierce hard hard-nosed harsh narrow resolute severe stern stiff strict terrible

STRONG

adamant firm refractory savage

WEAK

arbitrary callous confirmed cruel drastic exacting ferocious fixed hard-bitten hard-boiled hard-line hard-shelled headstrong immutable inflexible intractable merciless obdurate pugnacious ruthless stubborn taut unalterable unbending uncompromising uncontrollable unforgiving unmanageable unyielding vicious violent

Antonyms

STRONGEST

amenable easy flexible pliable pliant tolerant uncertain yielding

WEAK

controllable delicate fragile tender

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ruffianly

He was a principal leader in the mutiny of 1857 & of a most ruffianly disposition.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2018

Russell was thoroughly and lastingly embittered against the "ruffianly" Northerners, but he still kept his reportorial objectivity, predicted that Bull Run would stimulate the North to fight harder.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tough, ruffianly old Imam had moved out of his capital city of Taiz and established himself and his 40 women four miles away in the pleasure palace of Sala.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not so many years since "Bolshevik" was a popular synonym for a low, ruffianly fellow and "ruble" was a popular synonym for the ultimate in worthless money.

From Time Magazine Archive

Were the Adamses and Benjamin Franklin roughs? was it these who taught us to make ruffianly nominations?

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney

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