Voorbeelden van ruffian

• Real kindness would try to make of him a healthy ruffian, with just enough conscience to keep him from crime.

• In short, they were ruffians who committed every evil deed imaginable.

• So it is only when scarcity is moderate (neither non-existent nor severe) and generosity is limited (neither perfect nor like ruffians) that the circumstances of justice obtain.

• Perhaps they do not denounce them as capitalists, but they denounce them as bourgeois ruffians of the very worst kind.

• Is there any point whatever in having diplomatic relations with these ruffians?

• You accept the word of the ruffians who did it.

• He had a gang of ruffians giving evidence, and that made the task almost impossible.

• I know that some of these places have been the scene of attacks by these young ruffians.