Ruffianly

a.

1.

Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.

Adj.

1.

ruffianly - violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs" Synonyms: tough

bad, boorish, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, disorderly, disruptive, hooliganish, improper, loobyish, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, misbehaving, naughty, not respectable, off-base, out-of-line, raffish, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, unbehaving, yokelish