Thesaurus results for GANGSTERS

gangsters

noun

plural of gangster

as in thugs

a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang Al Capone remains one of the most notorious gangsters in American history

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Recent Examples of gangsters They get captured by Hungarian gangsters and have to fight (and kill) their way out of an inn run by a shady former dance prodigy (Uma Thurman). —

Brian Truitt, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026 Prosecutors used details from the home takeover to argue for a lengthy prison term, describing how Serrano and other gangsters took advantage of an 84-year-old woman who had dementia. —

Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026 American gangsters ran the hotels and the gambling. —

Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026 Kelly spends the first half of his book running through a who’s who of the New England underworld, gangsters and mob wannabes who likely came into contact with the art before the investigation reached Maine and Gentile. —

Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026 Set in the Mississippi Delta during the early 1930s, the film follows Smoke and Stack, twin brothers (both played by Jordan) who return to their hometown after years spent working for Chicago gangsters, hoping to start fresh and leave their violent past behind. —

Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026 In the movie’s fuzzy metaphysics, Shelley wills herself into the consciousness of a character named Ida (also played by Buckley), a young woman angling for survival in 1930s Chicago — a colorful, dangerous world of bawdy lotharios and lethal gangsters. —

Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026 All of this follows a long tradition in filmmaking that extends back to early Soviet films through Italian neorealist projects through Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, which featured some real gangsters. —

Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026 Together, the grimy pair start riding the rails across the country, watching movies starring Frank’s favorite actor, Ronnie Reed (Jake Gyllenhaal), and somehow sparking a feminist plot to overthrow the kinds of mean gangsters who killed Ida in the first place. —

David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026

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Noun

No government masked thugs shooting down our neighbors in the streets.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2026
Suddenly Odin gets a call telling him Korps leader Attila (Eili Harboe) and her thugs are on their way to finish the job.

— K.J. Yossman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026