Usually means: Behaving like a violent criminal.
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  1. ruffianous: Wordnik
  2. ruffianous: Wiktionary
  3. Ruffianous: Dictionary.com
  4. Ruffianous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. ruffianous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Ruffianous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. ruffianous: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Ruffianous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (archaic) Like a ruffian.

Similar:
ruffianlike, ruffianly, ruffianish, rugged, rufflike, rascally, rascallike, ruffed, rudeful, rudesome, more...

Opposite:
civilized, refined, genteel, cultured

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Similar:
ruffianlike, ruffianly, ruffianish, rugged, rufflike, rascally, rascallike, ruffed, rudeful, rudesome, more...

Opposite:
civilized, refined, genteel, cultured



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