ruffian

A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.

What wilt thou on thy death-bed play the Ruffian?

It was at Count Siloszech's. He'd heard her sing in the streets, with a tall, black-bearded ruffian, who accompanied her on a guitar, and a little fiddling gypsy fellow. She was a handsome woman, with hair down to her knees, but stupid as an owl.

A pimp; a pander.

A lover; a paramour.

He [her husband] is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, revelling with her ruffians.

To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

Methinks the wind does speak aloud at land; A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements. If it hath ruffianed so upon the sea.

Brutal, cruel, ruffianlike.

ruffian rage