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means Brutish, violent behavior carried out by thugs — muscle without a cause, force used for its own sake.

from Traces back to 'thug,' from Hindi/Urdu 'thag,' meaning cheat or swindler, which itself comes from Sanskrit 'sthaga' (deceiver). The word entered English via colonial-era British accounts of the 'Thuggee,' a group in India alleged to rob and strangle travelers as part of a cult practice. Victorian-era British writing sensationalized this into a lurid legend, and in the process the word got stripped of its specific context and flattened into a generic English term for a violent criminal. 'Thuggery' followed as the abstract noun — the behavior, minus the invented mythology.