gangsterical
English
Etymology
From gangster + -ical.
Adjective
gangsterical (comparative more gangsterical, superlative most gangsterical)
- Synonym of gangsterly.
- 1971, Ireland To-day, Kraus Reprint Company, page 89:
- 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.
- 1981, Nigeria, Bulletin on Foreign Affairs, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs., page 88:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.