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/ˈmɑfi.ə/ · noun
A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion..
moral mafia
Worse, it confirms what one always suspected about the 1930s literary mafia, with their graceless posing and relentless self-obsession — what terrible , terrible bores they were.
Since the victory of gadgetry is "inevitable," you might as well come along quietly and let us smother you in speed and convenience, says the digital mafia.
I can scarcely leave the apartment without being engulfed by journalists, not to mention the fucking left-wing activists and the multicultural mafia that assailed me with spitting and verbal abuse the last time I ventured out […]
Use mafia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mafia means A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion..
Common synonyms include maffia, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
moral mafia
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