droogish
English
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editdroogish (comparative more droogish, superlative most droogish)
- Amoral and savage, like a droog.
- 1973, William Faure, Images of Violence:
- In the second case, when droogish chivalry is revealed as illusory, Kubrick makes the scene ironic by timing it to Gene Kelly's song of joy from Singin' in the Rain (1952).
- 1988, Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In: The Culture of TV:
- The rock star's droogish image had taken on a revolutionary glow; his music rang like a call to insurrection […]
- 1993, Human Life Foundation, The Human Life Review:
- These particular refugees have escaped the Droogish nightmare of Red Chinese environmentalists and are ensnared now in the grinding bureaucracy of immigration court.
- 2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change:
- I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism.