Converse of object

• let: After the murder the captain let the two ruffians go ashore and locked himself in his cabin.

• see: From his eye, he saw a third ruffian hurtle backward into the bushes.

Adjective modifier

• old: Yond old ruffian is not for the priest: I do not like a new clerk should come in the old belfry.

• cowardly: Ten cowardly ruffians I saw upon one unarmed man, beating him with their clubs, till they felled him to the ground.

• dangerous: They were subduing, for want of a better word, some dangerous ruffian.

• local: The landlady tells Deborah off for sitting " on the garden " while ignoring the local ruffian rolling a joint by the front door.