Gangsterwise
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 According to, or in the manner of a gangster
"Indeed the Sunday Express is so upset by the success of "that stolid public school Englishman, Clive Brook, talking Cockney and twisting his mouth gangsterwise" in "Silence," that its critic suggests that this adopted virtuosity may be "another of Hollywood's crushing blows at the British Empire."
Example
More examples"Indeed the Sunday Express is so upset by the success of "that stolid public school Englishman, Clive Brook, talking Cockney and twisting his mouth gangsterwise" in "Silence," that its critic suggests that this adopted virtuosity may be "another of Hollywood's crushing blows at the British Empire."
Etymology
From gangster + -wise.
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