0 a violent, wild, and unpleasant person, usually a man
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.
