droogish

English

Etymology

droog +‎ -ish

Adjective

droogish (comparative more droogish, superlative most droogish)

1. Amoral and savage, like a droog.
   • 1973, William Faure, Images of Violence:

     In the second case, when droogish chivalry is revealed as illusory, Kubrick makes the scene ironic by timing it to Gene Kelly's song of joy from Singin' in the Rain (1952).

   • 1988, Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In: The Culture of TV:

     The rock star's droogish image had taken on a revolutionary glow; his music rang like a call to insurrection […]

   • 1993, Human Life Foundation, The Human Life Review:

     These particular refugees have escaped the Droogish nightmare of Red Chinese environmentalists and are ensnared now in the grinding bureaucracy of immigration court.

   • 2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change:

     I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism.

Anagrams

• Hidrogos