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 As Velma Davis, she and scene partner Gene Wilder, in his big screen debut, portrayed two young lovebirds who, while kissing on their front porch, notice that a group of hoodlums is stealing Eugene’s car. —

Greg Evans, Deadline, 20 June 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for hoodlum

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Image In so many ways, Jan. 6 had become part of his brand — a brand in which an attack on the symbol of American democracy became a defense of that same democracy: a blow against political thugs and closet communists, deep-state plots and an unjust justice system.

— Dan Barry, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
The investigation leads Cole into an ugly world of red-neck thugs and disappeared girls.

— Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2025