(v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind the Manchester ruffian image, they were conscientious people.
(2) These trousers, it later transpired, cost £995, and Nicky Morgan duly seized that predictable bait and snorted, “I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress.” After all, she added, while possibly patting a young local ruffian on the head, “My barometer is always, ‘How am I going to explain this in Loughborough market?” I think this was Morgan’s clueless way of saying she keeps it real, but it didn’t really work because those trousers looked exactly like the kind of thing sold in my local market, which, just this weekend, alongside the £1 Christmas crackers, was selling leather bustiers and disgusting, studded leather jackets.
(3) Two centuries later, Ruskin echoed these sentiments: Caravaggio, he claimed, painted “for the sake of the shadows”, and he was a “ruffian … distinguished only by his preference for candlelight and reinforcement of villainy”.
(4) Budget night at the opera: 28 March 1980 The souvenir programme (with it being a gala night, the programme cost more than a seat in some other theatres) promised "knights, esquires, ladies, ruffians, pages, maskers, soldiers, ushers, halberdiers, cupbearers and gondoliers."
(5) With their tight jeans and updated teddy-boy styles, the four gaff lads exude rough sex: they could have walked straight out of the Smiths's "Rusholme Ruffians" from the album Meat is Murder.
Ruffin
Definition:
(a.) Disordered.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Monday this week a second witness came forward and supported key aspects of Ruffin’s version of events, including that police had ignored Dhu’s pleas for help over several days.
(2) Ruffin gave evidence via video link from Roebourne prison, where Dhu would have been sent had her warrant required longer in custody.
(3) Ruffin Smith said so far no refugees have arrived: “We’ve made ourselves available.
(4) Ruffin said he heard her crying through the wall; O’Brien said the evidence of police was that her pain had spread from being just at the site of her broken ribs to all over her body.
(5) [Dhu] had stabbed me in the leg with a pair of scissors, over an argument, I can’t remember what it was over,” Ruffin said.
(6) Dion Ruffin, Dhu’s partner who was arrested alongside her and placed in an adjacent cell, earlier said police dismissed Dhu’s cries of distress as her “acting like a two-year-old” or somehow connected to her intravenous drug use.
(7) François Ruffin, the journalist and film-maker behind an award-winning blockbuster documentary on textile workers , tweeted that he had won a seat for France Unbowed in the northern area of the Sommes, confounding the predictions in favour of his opponent from Macron’s party.
(8) Ruffin has a record for domestic violence offences against former partners and admitted, under questioning from counsel assisting the coroner, Ilona O’Brien, that Dhu got the two broken ribs in a “tussle” with him in Geraldton three-and-a-half months before her death.
(9) Roe told the inquest she did not like Ruffin and blamed him for changing her daughter in the year or so before her death from a “happy, bubbly child” into someone more withdrawn.
(10) Ms Dhu’s partner at the time was Dion Ruffin, a 41-year-old man arrested at the same time as her but for different offences.
(11) She was arrested alongside Deon Ruffin, her allegedly abusive, much older partner.
(12) The Western Australian police force; Western Australian country health service; two nurses who attended Dhu at the South Hedland health campus; Dhu’s mother, Della Roe, and grandmother Carole Roe; Dhu’s father, Robert Dhu; and her ex-partner Dion James Ruffin were all individually represented.
(13) Dhu, whose first name is not used for cultural reasons, was allegedly abused by her partner, Dion Ruffin, who told the inquest in November that her rib broke in a “tussle” , which he claimed Dhu started.
(14) He kept going on about how she was carrying on like a two-year-old child and she was being childish, and that this was a mental health issue.” Ruffin said he repeatedly called police on the cell intercom and pleaded with them to take Dhu to hospital because he believed that she had blood poisoning from a blister he had popped.
(15) Robert Dhu told the court that Dhu had told him Ruffin had broken her ribs when he “flogged her” .
(16) Since mid-2013 she had been in a relationship with Deon Ruffin, an Aboriginal man 18-years her senior, who, according to her family, was controlling and abusive.
(17) Ms Dhu 'treated like a dog' by police before death in custody, inquest told Read more Ruffin, who gave evidence via video link from Greenough prison on Tuesday, where he is serving time for offences including assault and breaching a violence restraining order, said that Dhu had broken her ribs in a “tussle” with him in Geraldton but denied being violent, saying “we had a few wrestles”.
(18) Dhu’s partner, Dion Ruffin, who was detained in the next cell, told The Australian he heard her crying for help on that day, but police initially refused to take her to the hospital.
(19) The infection had entered Dhu’s bloodstream through her skin and taken seed around her broken ribs, said White, adding, “The osteomyelitis is in the ribs because it was broken or injured, and that was where the source of the infection comes from.” Dhu’s family told the coroner on Monday that Dhu’s partner, Dion Ruffin, was abusive and had broken her ribs a few months before.
(20) Ruffin was arrested after police received a tipoff that he had breached his bail conditions and Dhu was picked up for $3,622 in unpaid court fines.