What's the difference between thuggery and violent?
Thuggery
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Thuggism
Example Sentences:
(1) Bond's brutal, uncompromising vision of south-London thuggery provoked questions about the nature of theatre.
(2) Clashes also erupted on Friday between the two sides in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, the southern city of Assiut and Giza, prompting Essam el-Erian, a leading figure in the FJP, to condemn the attacks as "acts of thuggery hiding behind political forces".
(3) It took Harry Guy Bartholomew, first editorial director and then chairman after Rothermere unloaded his shares, to run the business on despotic lines and, with a mixture of flair and vindictive thuggery, create one of the great popular newspapers.
(4) There have been rumours, however, denied as slander by those still there, of rising alcoholism and petty thuggery.
(5) As a letter in the Guardian from the Labour MP Peter Hain two days later put it: "Wednesday night's events were not mindless thuggery but organised political violence.
(6) The association’s chief executive, Steve Knott, said the decision sent “a very bad signal that our parliament is not interested in cleaning up the unlawfulness and thuggery bringing down one of Australia’s most important industries”.
(7) He was referring to the recent removal of Egypt's longstanding emergency law with the exception of "thuggery" and recent statements by the interior minister Mohamed Yusuf of the need to keep the extraordinary powers it provides to handle recent crime-related incidents.
(8) Police have denied any involvement and attributed yesterday's killings to "rivalry or thuggery".
(9) Mainstream video game titles were derided for their sexism and thuggery, players were criticised for endorsing the twisted world views of conventional shooters and hack-’em-ups.
(10) We have come too far – in our football stadiums and on our streets – for us to permit the thuggery of a gaggle of drunks to define us and our Britain in 2015.
(11) It's already remained riot-free during the recent outbreaks of thuggery and feral shopping.
(12) The culture of the 13 million Zimbabweans he rules is one whose gentleness and articulacy seem at odds with the catalogue of torture and thuggery.
(13) The midfielder planted an elbow into the back of Mandzukic in act of thuggery that has, thankfully, rarely been seen at this World Cup .
(14) So too is Wael Ghonim , the Google executive whose Facebook campaign against police thuggery brought many to Tahrir Square.
(15) Unemployment is very high which can lead to loss of self-esteem, psychological stress, and hopelessness and sometimes street fighting, thuggery, drug pushing, and armed robbery.
(16) This equation with Heysel has been one of the easiest and most pernicious smears, enabling the original police lies of “thuggery” to take hold and cause the bereaved Hillsborough families to endure a traumatic, exhausting 27-year campaign for the truth to be established .
(17) Their actions were harshly denounced by the authorities as thuggery and interference in the legal process.
(18) The Red Bull-chugging Lewandowski has himself been reported as having physically manhandled protesters at campaign events, as well as showing a disdain for reporters and their public function that borders on thuggery.
(19) He spoke of "the whirlwinds of revolt", yet even when his protests were met with water cannon and thuggery, he urged the power of love.
(20) Spain were the one class team and won, though the 1-0 final was one of epic thuggery.
Violent
Definition:
(a.) Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
(a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
(a.) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
(n.) An assailant.
(v. t.) To urge with violence.
(v. i.) To be violent; to act violently.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
(2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(3) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
(4) When rates were covaried for prior violent crime arrests, White House Case subjects with prior arrests had a significantly higher rate of total posthospitalization violent crime arrests than the matched control sample.
(5) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
(6) The home secretary, Theresa May, will attend a summit in Washington on tackling violent extremism, called by Barack Obama after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris.
(7) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.
(8) The Bolotnaya Square protest in May was the only one to turn violent in the nearly year-long wave of demonstrations that brought on to the streets tens of thousands of people opposed to Putin's return to the presidency.
(9) IPCC found a Gwent police control room operation had downgraded a call relating to her despite police knowing she was trying to escape a violent partner.
(10) A case of complete rupture of the pectoralis major after violent trauma is reported.
(11) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
(12) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
(13) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
(14) Depending on who you talk to, these evictions were either violent or largely peaceful.
(15) Where demanded by justice and national security, we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders – highly secure prisons that ensure the public safety.
(16) Data from almost a third of hospital emergency departments found a 12% fall in injuries from violent incidents in 2013.
(17) The resulting disturbing, violent or disruptive behavior will severely detract from the quality of life the patient and family can share together.
(18) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
(19) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
(20) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.