Words similar to hammett

Example sentences for: hammett

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

When the book was coming out in Black Mask , in 1929, the editor presumably took gunsel to be a synonym of gunman , and in that sense it was very widely adopted by Hammett's imitators, by the general public, and even, it seems, by the underworld.
-- Charles Kenher ( Tim Carvell , Floyd Elliot , Matthew Heimer , and Chris Hammett had similar answers.)
“In the Queen's Parlor” specifically refers to Hammett's use of gunsel and describes him as meaning it in the “catamite” sense.
--Chris Hammett
Ellery Queen, in In the Queen's Parlour (1957), has a note on Dashiell Hammett's use of the word.