Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to or characteristic of a mob; resembling a mob; tumultuous; vulgar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective like a
mob , characteristic of amob
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless
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Examples
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He describes the paparazzi and public worlds of celebrities as difficult and "mobbish" with groups of very bad, very aggressive people.
Robin Sax: New law jails paparazzi - now what? (Part 1) Robin Sax 2010
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He describes the paparazzi and public worlds of celebrities as difficult and "mobbish" with groups of very bad, very aggressive people.
Robin Sax: New law jails paparazzi - now what? (Part 1) Robin Sax 2010
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He expressed outrage at the notion that the 180 representatives in the Virginia legislature were “a mobbish suspected herd” that “cannot be trusted” with the interests of their constituents.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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He expressed outrage at the notion that the 180 representatives in the Virginia legislature were “a mobbish suspected herd” that “cannot be trusted” with the interests of their constituents.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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He expressed outrage at the notion that the 180 representatives in the Virginia legislature were “a mobbish suspected herd” that “cannot be trusted” with the interests of their constituents.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Mair knows this, as he explicitly states it, yet still he uses this example as illustrative of the awfulness of the internet and the propensity of internet users to mobbish behaviour.
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Mair knows this, as he explicitly states it, yet still he uses this example as illustrative of the awfulness of the internet and the propensity of internet users to mobbish behaviour.
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Mair knows this, as he explicitly states it, yet still he uses this example as illustrative of the awfulness of the internet and the propensity of internet users to mobbish behaviour.
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They register disgust at anything corporate, and embrace special interest thugs of the public-employee unions and affiliates of the mobbish Teamsters and AFL-CIO.
Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows 2006
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While the mobbish inquisitors were in the height of their office, the women came running up to me, to know what they should do; a constable being actually fetched.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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