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gangsterism
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n. The behavior of a gangster; organized crime
Usage examples of gangsterism.
The transcript of Kid Twist’s testimony makes some of the most horrifying reading in the history of gangsterism: how, for example, Pittsburgh Phil set fire to the body of a murdered mobster, purely for the pleasure of seeing him burn.
It is a monstrous combination of uncompromising idealism and unscrupulous gangsterism, and thus devoid of the humor and humaneness which enables confessed rascals to sit down together and work out reasonable deals.
And then the collapse of Soviet Communism caused a new influx of Russians, escaping from hard times and from the new gangsterism, or simply to do business.
They were so good at what they did that they ended up actually exporting their brand of gangsterism to other countries, particularly America.
It is packed with the sort of slightly out-of-date gangsterisms that anybody could pick up from a Mafia thriller.