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gangsterly

gangsterly adjective: of, relating to, or resembling a gangster.

Adjective

gangsterly (comparative more gangsterly, superlative most gangsterly)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling a gangster
    • And in truth it had been Mary's money that had kept them all for so long – the house in Holland Park, her father's gangsterly lifestyle . . . Not that she could tell Julia any of this.2011, Barbara Nadel, Deep Waters
    • Further, in the genre convention, in order that we may unmistakably witness his miscreance and therefore finally assent to his punishment or death, all his gangsterly activity is depicted in crisp, clear focus with good lighting (no matter that he is acting in the shadows of the underworld)...2014, Steven Sanders, Aeon J. Skoble, R. Barton Palmer, The Philosophy of Michael Mann

Forms of gangsterly

comparativemore gangsterly
superlativemost gangsterly

Origin of gangsterly

From gangster + -ly.

Questions about gangsterly

What does gangsterly mean?
Gangsterly means of, relating to, or resembling a gangster.
What part of speech is gangsterly?
Gangsterly is an adjective.

Words near gangsterly in the dictionary

  1. gangsterizing
  2. gangsterland
  3. gangsterlands
  4. gangsterless
  5. gangsterlike
  6. gangsterly
  7. gangsterness
  8. gangsters
  9. gangstership
  10. gangsterwise
  11. gangstress

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