Crossword-Solution: RUFFIAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ruffian | n. | A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour. |
| Ruffian | n. | A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat. |
| Ruffian | a. | brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage. |
| Ruffian | v. i. | To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RUFFIAN | anagram | FUNFAIR |
We have 50 clues for the answer “RUFFIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| violent lawless person | 1 answer |
| Famous filly | 1 answer |
| Bullying one | 1 answer |
| Bad seed | 1 answer |
| A lawless person | 1 answer |
| larrikin | 7 answers |
| violent person | 9 answers |
| crude person | 9 answers |
| BAD SEED, THE AUTHOR | 9 answers |
| A BULLY EMPLOYED AS A THUG OR BODYGUARD | 10 answers |
| UNMANNERLY person | 10 answers |
| MEDDLESOME person | 11 answers |
| dynamitard | 11 answers |
| TWO-fisted person | 11 answers |
| IMPRUDENT person | 12 answers |
| redneck | 12 answers |
| hotspur | 12 answers |
| insolent person | 12 answers |
| FOOLHARDY person | 12 answers |
| Hothead? | 13 answers |
| DEFIANT person | 14 answers |
| stuntman | 16 answers |
| Mafioso | 16 answers |
| Rapscallion | 20 answers |
| MALICIOUS person | 21 answers |
| Hoodlum | 22 answers |
| Hooligan | 22 answers |
| FEARSOME person | 23 answers |
| Scapegrace. | 23 answers |
| Mugger | 24 answers |
| Riffraff | 24 answers |
| Brute | 26 answers |
| persecutor | 28 answers |
| Thug | 28 answers |
| Gangster | 30 answers |
| TROUBLESOME person | 33 answers |
| Cad | 34 answers |
| blusterer | 34 answers |
| tormentor | 35 answers |
| desperado | 36 answers |
| "Bravo!" | 38 answers |
| Hector | 51 answers |
| Robber | 52 answers |
| Hood | 57 answers |
| Rogue | 63 answers |
| BULLY ___ | 63 answers |
| rowdy | 70 answers |
| CRIMINAL ___ | 72 answers |
| Scoun-drel | 74 answers |
| Tough | 108 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with RUFFIAN (5)
Phrases like "barbarian," "Negro ruffian," "African Annie," "colored cannibal," "coon," and "darkie" were standard epithets.
The ruffian Woodley was a very different person, but, except on one occasion, he had not molested our client, and now he visited the house of Carruthers without intruding upon her presence.
Further inquiries showed that one of the cells was empty; it had been occupied by a rather sullen ruffian giving his name as Oscar Rian.
The couple was quite shrewd enough not to reveal anything to a rude, angry, and ill-dressed man on horseback, because, they concluded that, however deficient their own hospitality to the child, it was likely to be better than whatever would be offered by such a ruffian.
And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
Quotes with RUFFIAN (2)
Wonder of time,' quoth she, 'this is my spite, That, thou being dead, the day should yet be light.'Since thou art dead, lo, here I prophesy: Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend: It shall be waited on with jealousy, Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end, Ne'er settled equally, but high or low, That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe.'It shall be fickle, false and full of fraud, Bud and be blasted in a breathing-while; The bottom poison, and the top o'erstraw'dWith…
It strikes me you might place your gifts better. Why should you send powder to a ruffian who will use it to commit crimes? But for the deplorable weakness every one here seems to have for the bandits, they would have disappeared out of Corsica long ago.""The worst men in our country are not those who are 'in the country.'""Give them bread, if it so please you. But I will not have you supply them with ammuni
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1974–2022).