Words similar to gangster

Example sentences for: gangster

How can you use “gangster” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Says David Chou, a promoter of U.S. statehood for Taiwan, "China is like a gangster; the United States is like a policeman.
There is a startling difference between the gangster romanticism portrayed by Marlon Brando and Al Pacino and the gangsterism embodied earlier in the century by Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney.
Or compare Cagney with fellow macho icon John Wayne: The punk gangster's stock has fallen, while the silent cowboy's keeps on rising.
Many of us recall the old gangster movies of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney.
Freund is right that in many ways the Godfather pictures (especially Part II ) are the opposite of the traditional gangster movie, but he's precisely wrong in his reasons why.