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gangster

noun as in person involved in illegal activities

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The jailing of hundreds of Scottish gangsters has left prison staff playing a daily game of chess as they try to keep violent rivals apart.

From BBC

Several items connected to notorious London gangsters the Kray twins are to come up for auction.

From BBC

"She was a public figure, a community leader, quite a big heroin dealer, and she was a gangster," he says.

From BBC

Less discussed has been Milioti’s metamorphosis into the internally and externally scarred Sofia, hard as Gotham’s most brutal gangsters and free of the ties of conscience that could bind vengeful hands.

This, I realized while standing there, was public policy in action, MAGA’s culture of cruelty and gangster capitalism run amok on the street level.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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