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gangsterly

adj

Etymology

From gangster + -ly.

  1. derived from *ǵʰengʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *ganganą✻
  3. inherited from *gangan✻
  4. inherited from gangan
  5. inherited from gangen
  6. suffixed as gangster — “gang + ster”
  7. suffixed as gangsterly — “gangster + ly”

Definitions

  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.

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