gangster
Example Sentences
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"Never in your life label me a thug again. Never label me a wannabe gangster," he said.
From BBC
Will McKinley, a New York film writer, is dying to get his hands on a copy of “Alias Nick Beal,” a 1949 film noir starring Ray Milland as a satanic gangster.
From Los Angeles Times
Hun Sen's video, broadcast on his official Facebook page in January, showed the prime minister threatening to beat up political rivals and send "gangsters" to their homes, according to the board's ruling.
From Reuters
She was dubbed a murderer, a gangster's moll.
From BBC
Earlier this year, Pietro Orlandi played an audio tape on Italian television from an alleged gangster who said girls were brought into the Vatican to be molested and that John Paul II knew about it.
From Reuters
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