Ruffian is valid Scrabble Word

Is ruffian a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is ruffian valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for RUFFIAN in dictionary:

VERB:

to behave like a tough, lawless person
To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
act like a ruffian

NOUN:

a violent person, especially one involved in crime.
violent lawless person
A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.
a cruel and brutal fellow

ADJECTIVE:

brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.

Words related to RUFFIAN

bangster11 droog7 ruffianed16 ruffianing17 ruffianism18 ruffianly18 ruffians14

Words that contain RUFFIAN

ruffians14 ruffianed16 ruffianly18 ruffianing17 ruffianish19 ruffianism18 humgruffian23 ruffianisms19 humgruffians24

How to use RUFFIAN in a sentence

I might be chasing some river-side ruffian, who would give me a knife in my belly for my pains.
One ruffian threatened him with instant death if he did not at once grant every prayer contained in their petition.
Berkeley proved himself a tiger, as he had proved himself a ruffian in insulting Mrs.
It had taken only a close glance for Duane to recognize a type of ruffian most frequently met along the river.
This ruffian, as bold and mean a type as Duane had ever encountered, had, from some cause or other, been startled.
The officer who guarded them was a ruffian and a villain, Captain Baumgarten.
He both hated and despised the coarse ruffian whose sham good-nature did not impose on him, and whom he knew for a brutal, dull-witted, mean-spirited bully.
And one would like to ask also whether the stalwart ruffian himself took up the line of consecrated and ghastly succession.
Before the ruffian could recover he received a thump under the ear that made him see stars and sent him sprawling.
But they suffered the robbery quietly and even offered the ruffian and his woman more to lay a trap for M.

Then I tried to work the handkerchief down over my mouth, but the ruffian beside me raised his knife with such a threatening snarl that I had to desist.
On bringing the matter to my recollection, after I had got rid of the pain and agitation, I was able to remember that the ruffian had a coarse face and red whiskers.
He must be restored to his farm, but by other hands than yours, and that ruffian instantly expelled from it.
In a tussle with another man he knew that he could hold his own, and a sight of the ruffian would enable him to judge whether bribery or force would be the better weapon with him.
He was not at all used to such an old ruffian as this.
Again the keen knife descended, and this time struck deep, for the wounded animal, with a convulsive spring, overturned the ruffian, and together they rolled upon the floor.
At times he failed to save the necks even of his intimates, since, when once a ruffian was notorious, Moll and the Clerk fought vainly for his release.
One famous gesture was irresistible, and he never employed it but some poor ruffian fell senseless to the floor.
Yet a more consistent ruffian never pleaded for mercy.
Even the father, ruffian that he was, offered no objection.
The ruffian with the automatic pistol waiting behind the tree requires the life as well as the basket of the little figure advancing toward him.
It was only the fact that the fellow was a notorious local ruffian that prevented their expressing open disapproval of the act.
Some ruffian took a handful of the powder, and spilled a train along the ground, telling his comrades to stand clear.
As he took his basket and walked home, the young ruffian followed him.
The pilot also, whom Lake had offended so much, was known to be a bold and treacherous ruffian.
CHAPTER XXVI A CARDINAL POINT The irresistible discomfiture of this ruffian did not affect the value of the evidence which he had volunteered.
Blows followed, Tessa and Tasso bearing their part bravely, and compelling the young ruffian to take himself off.
It was with this ruffian that Salve had first to measure himself, the boatswain being the immediate cause.

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