gangsterwise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
According to, or in the manner of a gangster
Example Sentences
- "Indeed the Sunday Express is so upset by the success of "that stolid public school Englishman, Clive Brook, talking Cockney and twisting his mouth gangsterwise" in "Silence," that its critic suggests that this adopted virtuosity may be "another of Hollywood's crushing blows at the British Empire."
- "But what he did not respect, gangster-wise or otherwise but no wise, was that part of the pie that belonged to his uncles."
- "I wasn't cuttin' much of a figure, gangsterwise."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more gangsterwise (comparative)
most gangsterwise (superlative)
gangster-wise (alternative)