ruffianly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ruffianly (comparative more ruffianly, superlative most ruffianly)
- Like or having the qualities of a ruffian. [from 16th c.]
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, section I:
- Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depth of the cellar, but gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down to him, leaving me vis-à-vis the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheepdogs […].
- 1922, “The Seven against Thebes”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 136:
- One righteous man who reverences the Gods
Shall shipmate be with a ruffianly crew[…].
Translations[edit]
like or having the qualities of a ruffian
Adverb[edit]
ruffianly (comparative more ruffianly, superlative most ruffianly)
- In the manner of a ruffian.
Translations[edit]
in the manner of a ruffian