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- adjective informal
Gangsterlike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So Stalin and Beria, when they were --- when they were running the terror, they liked to devise this kind of -- this kind of gangsterish, brigand-like kidnappings.
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Moreover, in a recent subscribers issue of Counterpunch (Vol. 16, No. 7) Pam Martens describes the game-plan of the “Free-State Project” to take over the state of New Hampshire by force and create a laissez-faire society reminiscent of the wishes of Messrs. A and B and the gangsterish primary ponerogenic union, Club B, which I described inPart II.
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This individual has, apparently, a singularly murky gangsterish past which was the subject of a posting on the blog of former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray who there gave chapter and verse about the man.
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It should not look like some shabby impromptu of gangsterish thuggery.
Rites and Wrongs: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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This individual has, apparently, a singularly murky gangsterish past which was the subject of a posting on the blog of former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray who there gave chapter and verse about the man.
Archive 2007-09-23 2007
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I begin to see him as a very improbable man, lean and dark with the gray dyed out of his hair and a seeming need to look half gangsterish in that long slick coat.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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I begin to see him as a very improbable man, lean and dark with the gray dyed out of his hair and a seeming need to look half gangsterish in that long slick coat.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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His jailers are Hirst's menacing, gangsterish, Cockney-accented servants: Foster, played coolly as the smoother, more obviously gay one by David Walliams (of TV's "Little Britain" in his first "straight theater" role); and Briggs, played by Nick Dunning, as the one who delivers the Pinteresquely boring road-directions monologue while shimmering with suppressed violence.
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There is only one possible logic behind the claims of insensitivity, behind Fox News 'John Gibson's hysterical clucking about a "War on Christmas" and Bill O'Reilly's gangsterish calls for shoppers to avoid department stores that don't explicitly refer to Christmas in their holiday promotions.
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I begin to see him as a very improbable man, lean and dark with the gray dyed out of his hair and a seeming need to look half gangsterish in that long slick coat.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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