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  1. Thugs

    a fraternity of professed worshippers of the goddess Kali, the wife of Siva, who, professedly to propitiate her, practised murder, and lived on the spoils of the victims. Thuggee, a name for the practice, originally by strangling and at times by poisoning.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of thugs in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of thugs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of thugs in a Sentence

  1. Richard K. Morgan:

    Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses.

  2. Nancy Pelosi:

    There's something wrong with Putin, Kim Jong Un, in my view, thugs, that The President chooses to believe.

  3. Carolyn Kaster-Pool/Getty Images:

    When the police are ordered to stand down and the arrests aren't made for vandalism all the way up through arson and serious assaults, I don't think it helps, i think it sends the wrong signal… And I think that I wouldn't call them protests -- I think there were legitimate protesters, but I also think there were thugs who were out to intimidate people.

  4. Steven Howse:

    He didn't know who anybody was, so I said 'Do you know Bone Thugs-n-Harmony?' and he kinda woke up. He was like, 'Yeah.'.

  5. John McCain:

    Our nation should not rely on Russia to access space, but because it is simply immoral to help subsidize Russia's intervention in Ukraine and line the pockets of Putin's gang of thugs who profit from the sale of Russian rocket engines.

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