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thuggier

thuggier is the comparative form of thuggy.

Meaning of thuggy

Adjective

thuggy (comparative thuggier, superlative thuggiest)

  1. thuggish
    • “These are brutally thuggy people who don’t want to rule politically and have no strategy for winning a war,” Dr. Boothby said.2007 April 29, Jeffrey Gettleman, “The Perfect Weapon for the Meanest Wars”, in New York Times

Questions about thuggier

What is thuggier the comparative form of?
Thuggier is the comparative form of thuggy.

Words near thuggier in the dictionary

  1. thuggess
  2. thuggesses
  3. thuggette
  4. thuggettes
  5. thuggi
  6. thuggier
  7. thuggiest
  8. thugging
  9. thugging it out
  10. thuggis
  11. thuggish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thuggier (page history and authors); thuggy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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