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In the indictments, prosecutors referred to the group ominously as “The Family,” a name, with its mobbish and Mansonian connotations, that was seldom, if ever, used by the ELF.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has described blaming individuals for the banking crisis as "lynch mobbish".

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2013

While the mobbish inquisitors were in the height of their office, the women came running up to me, to know what they should do; a constable being actually fetched.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel

And be judicial, arithmetical, in passing sentence on it; not shrieky, mobbish, and flying off into the Infinite!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas

Prudence was construed into timidity, and with every abstention from lead the sailor's mobbish friends grew more daring and outrageous.

From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert)