English-Portuguese translations for thug

bandidoMas será necessário acabar com o regime de Robert Mugabe, um bandido assassino, para que tal se torne realidade. But it is going to take an ending of the regime of Robert Mugabe, a murdering thug, for this to become a reality. Esta era a retórica utilizada no tempo do comunismo mais profundo, quando os capitalistas financeiros eram rotulados de "bandidos de Wall Street”. This used to be the rhetoric in the days of deepest Communism when financial capitalists were labelled 'Wall Street thugs'.
capangaOs grandes produtores de morango e os seus capangas tentaram intimidar esses trabalhadores estrangeiros. Large-scale strawberry growers and their hired thugs attempted to intimidate the foreign workers. Nós que pertencemos aos principais partidos não devemos sentir-nos intimidados pelos rufias e os capangas da extrema-direita, da extrema-esquerda ou por qualquer tipo de fundamentalistas. Those of us in the mainstream parties do not have to be intimidated by the thugs and bully boys of the extremist right, left or fundamentalists of any kind.

Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire
In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed
To commit acts of thuggery, to live the life of a thug, or to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of someone who does

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