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Recent Examples of hoodlum During the same year, Lansky joined Mafia hoodlum Joe Adonis in the operation of a major bootleg liquor operation in New York, apparently his first close association with the Mafia. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025 Those secrets created De Niro’s glorified and most memorable street hoodlums and now befuddle his current crazy-man public image. Armond White, National Review, 21 Mar. 2025 Some people told his family that Pereda went to a movie that night and a hoodlum told him someone outside wanted to see him. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025 When Jennifer Lawrence isn’t full-frontally beating the bejesus out of insouciant hoodlums, that is. Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hoodlum
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Noun
  • Letterman may be the obvious precedent but Mulaney’s delivery is less snide than lightly panicked, as if some Netflix thugs have their hands on a switch off-camera, eager to cut to black.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The Depardieu shtick — his public persona as a crude, working-class thug — was on full display.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The infamous gangster, who had set up shop in Cicero, quickly became a prime suspect but initially was nowhere to be found.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Before long, top officials started calling him an MS-13 gangster and a terrorist, even though he’s never been convicted of a crime.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Reckless sanctuary city policies create a sanctuary for one class — criminals.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • It is tasked with a broad range of actions — hunting fugitives, transporting federal prisoners and managing goods seized from criminals.
    Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Children meet superheroes and villains, engage with games and movies, and are greeted by staff in costume.
    Chris Gallagher, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The soul patch, villain, and walrus facial hair all work with masks while mutton chops and chin curtain don’t.
    Lisa Wood Shapiro, Wired News, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The caps proved popular with dockworkers, shipwrights and bandits, and, over time, the baker boy hat became synonymous with the newsboy cap (which was actually worn by boys working at newsstands).
    Rosa Rahimi, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Security cameras at the church captured images of the bandit, who appears to be an older white woman.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025

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“Hoodlum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoodlum. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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