Definition of "gangsterish" [gangsterish]

• Gangsterlike. (adjective)

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• "So Stalin and Beria, when they were --- when they were running the terror, they liked to devise this kind of -- this kind of gangsterish, brigand-like kidnappings."
• "Moreover, in a recent subscribers issue of Counterpunch (Vol. 16, No. 7) Pam Martens describes the game-plan of the “Free-State Project” to take over the state of New Hampshire by force and create a laissez-faire society reminiscent of the wishes of Messrs. A and B and the gangsterish primary ponerogenic union, Club B, which I described inPart II."
• "This individual has, apparently, a singularly murky gangsterish past which was the subject of a posting on the blog of former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray who there gave chapter and verse about the man."