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Recent Examples of hoodlum Critics refer to the kids who covered the iconic Beaux Arts-style building as vandals and hoodlums. Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024 Skipping the childhood stuff, the story gets going with Eddie or Edik as a young factory worker and poet manqué in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in the 1960s after a rocky hoodlum phase which saw him getting sent by his parents to a mental hospital. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024 Those protestors that Saturday didn’t look like principled advocates for anything, but more like a bunch of selfish hoodlums who need to grow up. Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 12 May 2024 Citizens began to ask why the supposedly omnipotent Chinese Communist Party was powerless against ragtag hoodlums in the poorest fringes of Asia’s poorest nations. TIME, 21 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hoodlum 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoodlum
Noun
  • The investigation leads Cole into an ugly world of red-neck thugs and disappeared girls.
    Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2025
  • How many of you recall the TV image on Jan. 6, 2021, of Officer Daniel Hodges, squashed in a revolving door at the U.S. Capitol, screaming for help as MAGA thugs beat on his head?
    Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Armed with his signature mop, the unlikely hero battles freaks, gangsters and corrupt CEOs while trying to save his relationship with his son.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
  • His involvement with Max (Laura Haddock) thrusts him on an international journey that puts him at odds with both Russian gangsters and his own colleagues in intelligence.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Every day Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President Trump's administration is removing from our communities.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • But during a White House press briefing this week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt boldly asserted that under the Trump administration, all undocumented immigrants are considered criminals.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His music has served as a vehicle for haunting, bombastic fantasies, often with himself as the villain.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The actor was also fired from his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the villain Kang the Conqueror, who was originally intended to feature in the next two Avengers films.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This location can be found north of Tachov in the forests beside a bandit camp.
    Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The bandit wheeled and snarled at Herod, exposing his rotting front teeth.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Hoodlum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoodlum. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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