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gangsterical en · ADJ

Etymology

From gangster + -ical.

Meanings

1. Synonym of gangsterly.
   • Cocteau's famous essay on Indirect Criticism is retranslated; there are a pretty baby story by Gertrude Stein and gangsterical stories in the pungent style practised by our American cousins. 1971, Ireland To-day, Kraus Reprint Company, page 89:
   • Three, South Africa is attempting by its gangsterical display of fire-power, to serve notice to the frontline states and other progressive forces in Africa that it means to persist in its nefarious ways. 1981, Nigeria, Bulletin on Foreign Affairs, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs., page 88:
   • When the Founding Fathers masterfully framed the U.S. Constitution, they conceived and masterfully created a nation of laws—not a plutocracy where self-serving and gangsterical political ruffians governed as was the case in the immediate flag-independent post-colonial Africa in the 1960s, including the Cameroons. 2012 March 9, H. Baté Agbor-Baiyee, A Long and Restless Journey in Pursuit of Happiness with Empty Hands of Faith: An Authoritative Resource for Bushfallers, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page xix:

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Synonyms

gangsterly