What's the difference between caveman and thug?

Caveman


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For a moment I think some jealous caveman has bludgeoned me with a club but, from my prone position, I can see that there is a nasty rock protrusion at head height.
  • (2) Wild Words of Sport (@WWofSport) @Simon_Burnton Nadal, with his caveman grunting, his undie-picking, is a visceral beast.
  • (3) In her essay about trying the Impossible Burger , she talked about her mixed emotion at taking her first bite: “As I took my second and third bites, I started to wonder if eating this Impossible Burger would flip some long repressed caveman switch in my brain, making me crave meat again.” As she pointed out, to make a real dent in cutting our greenhouse gas emissions, we will need McDonald’s to give the meatless burger a shot.
  • (4) Still, we only manage to get round to a fraction of the carts, missing out the likes of the Cultured Caveman with its paleo-diet offerings or "sweetgeist" merchant Sugar Cube , with its transgressive take on cakes: the "Amy Winehouse" is topped with icing sugar "coke", its chocolate caramel cupcakes are penetrated by salted potato chips.
  • (5) (Her opening line: "It was like I had been conked over the head by a caveman… ") Not a day goes by, she tells me, without someone asking her about Salinger.
  • (6) In fact, in her opinion, they just show how easily manipulated some men can be: "To watch Gisele showing clearly that a clever woman can get anything from a man just by behaving in a sexy manner shows a sort of caveman quality that some guys have, and that intelligent women know how to take advantage of it."
  • (7) A caveman holds in one hand a pot labelled “petrol”, in the other a wooden stick, aflame, labelled “fire”.
  • (8) You are saying: ‘Your stupid small-minded caveman politics are irrelevant.’” A non-practicing Muslim, she insists her ethnicity is not an issue on the doorstep.
  • (9) The idea, also called the caveman, hunter-gatherer or paleolithic diet, has been around for decades and is regularly recycled - as it was in various newspapers earlier this week after the regime was discussed at a meeting of the British Society for Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine.
  • (10) Inside his van there was a mattress, blankets and baseball bat, according to one former employee, who called Bellfield "an animal" and a "caveman".
  • (11) It is the politics of the first caveman council where the caveman came out from the council where there had been difficult decisions and pointed with his club across the forest and said: ‘There, over there.
  • (12) If Donald Trump “didn’t share her last name, it’s fair to wonder which party Ivanka Trump would back in 2016”, wrote Philip Bump in the Washington Post, while Rebecca Traister of New York magazine asked more pointedly: “Why is Ivanka trying to pass off her caveman dad as a paragon of gender equality?
  • (13) This is said to be true for women in terms of fertility and ovulation, and for everyone in terms of digestion, hence the current popularity of the "Paleo" or "caveman" diet .
  • (14) Interviewers have variously likened him to a charolais bull, a builders' skip, a circus acrobat holding up the human pyramid, a "runaway truck" of a man, and caveman meets Cary Grant.
  • (15) "Guys have been putting their dicks in boxes since caveman days."

Thug


Definition:

  • (n.) One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
  • (2) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
  • (3) "It took 21 days to get my hands on the brilliant Thug Life, whereas the book took me 77 days," he writes.
  • (4) But with a murderous thug ejected from power, who could object?
  • (5) Here's one entry: 1995: The government is full of jack-booted thugs in bucket helmets.
  • (6) In Ya’alon’s place is set to come a man routinely described as a thug, even if he did once serve as foreign minister.
  • (7) During the police repression of the Tunisian revolution, they were beaten by security thugs, and in rural areas around Kasserine some were raped by police after demonstrations.
  • (8) The commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, said today that armed officers protecting Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as their car was attacked by student protesters showed "enormous restraint" and condemned the "thugs" who attacked the vehicle.
  • (9) After all, every veto holder had attacked another country in defiance of the charter, but no one had ever disputed the alleged Westphalian right of each anointed thug to mistreat his "own" people.
  • (10) "Free speech is a principle of our democracy, but the thugs that prompted violence ... represent in no way shape or form the Canadian way of life," Dimitri Soudas, the chief spokesman for the prime minister, Stephen Harper, said.
  • (11) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
  • (12) She has no problem combining the roles of mother and hitperson: during one exchange of fire, she offs three thugs, then turns to her daughter and asks, "Honey, should we get a puppy?"
  • (13) Not surprisingly, the Thugs caught the imagination of the British at home (which is how the word "thug" entered the English language), and became a touchstone for colonial justifications for ruling India.
  • (14) Bikers for Trump: 'He'll get my vote because he's off his goddamn rocker' Read more Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won’t give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about “agitators” and “thugs” who make him feel unsafe.
  • (15) "If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves," Major General Michael T Flynn, then the senior US military intelligence official in Afghanistan, was quoted as saying .
  • (16) Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longstanding critic of Obama’s foreign policy credentials, urged the president to “do something” rather than deliver what he called empty threats to “thugs and dictators”.
  • (17) You used to be pretty certain, when a killing happened, that it was the work of the state, or thugs in the pay of the state.
  • (18) One of the emails mentioned Watson, who strongly denied any involvement, but the Sun branded him “a Brownite thug”.
  • (19) How embarrassing that some members of the government appear to have behaved in the manner of uncouth thugs – and towards someone representing the UN, which dared to question the bedroom tax.
  • (20) Hosni Mubarak launched his counter-revolution today, sending waves of armed thugs to do battle with pro-democracy demonstrators in Cairo and other cities.