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hoodlums

noun as in crook

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He charged that the Bonus march had been largely “organized and promoted by the Communists and included a large number of hoodlums and ex-convicts.”

The authorities say the curfew is necessary because "hoodlums" have hijacked the protests in order to loot and vandalise properties.

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She told them, “You rotten hoodlums! What are you doing in this town?” she recalled in an oral history interview.

As with the original, this new version approaches the outlaw life from the perspective of the filthy rich bosses, trying to manage a business staffed by unreliable hoodlums.

“We were hoodlums in a sense, out of our circumstances,” he said during an interview at his Berkeley co-op in May.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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