gangsterical

English

Etymology

From gangster +‎ -ical.

Adjective

gangsterical (comparative more gangsterical, superlative most gangsterical)

1. Synonym of gangsterly.
   • 1971, Ireland To-day‎^[1], Kraus Reprint Company, page 89:

     Cocteau's famous essay on Indirect Criticism is retranslated; there are a pretty baby story by Gertrude Stein and gangsterical stories in the pungent style practised by our American cousins.

   • 1981, Nigeria, Bulletin on Foreign Affairs‎^[2], Nigerian Institute of International Affairs., page 88:

     Three, South Africa is attempting by its gangsterical display of fire-power, to serve notice to the frontline states and other progressive forces in Africa that it means to persist in its nefarious ways.

   • 2012 March 9, H. Baté Agbor-Baiyee, A Long and Restless Journey in Pursuit of Happiness with Empty Hands of Faith: An Authoritative Resource for Bushfallers, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page xix:

     When the Founding Fathers masterfully framed the U.S. Constitution, they conceived and masterfully created a nation of laws—not a plutocracy where self-serving and gangsterical political ruffians governed as was the case in the immediate flag-independent post-colonial Africa in the 1960s, including the Cameroons.