droogish

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1. Amoral and savage, like a droog.

   I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism.

   2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change

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   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).

   1973, William Faure, Images of Violence

   The rock star's droogish image had taken on a revolutionary glow; his music rang like a call to insurrection […]

   1988, Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In: The Culture of TV

   These particular refugees have escaped the Droogish nightmare of Red Chinese environmentalists and are ensnared now in the grinding bureaucracy of immigration court.

   1993, Human Life Foundation, The Human Life Review