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- noun Alternative capitalization of
Mafioso
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Examples
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The mafioso is seduced – more irony – by his opponent's embodiment of British "fair play" and Makepiece becomes a naive confidante and go-between in the proposed trade-off with MI6.
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré Tim Adams 2010
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The relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown became so hostile that Blair described his chancellor as "mad, bad, dangerous and beyond redemption" and likened Brown's behaviour to that of a "mafioso" in his dealings with him, Lord Mandelson has revealed.
Mandelson's memoirs: Blair thought Brown was 'mad, bad and dangerous' 2010
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The relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown became so hostile that Blair described his chancellor as "mad, bad, dangerous and beyond redemption" and likened Brown's behaviour to that of a "mafioso" in his dealings with him, Lord Mandelson has revealed.
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That particular deception was justified by the recent election: the Lib Dems, whose predictions of forming a government have always seemed an absolute hoot, did take power, while Labour, which looked doomed (and surely would have been if Mandelson's book had come out in March), came very close to keeping the "mafioso" (as Mandy says Tony called him) in No10.
Warning: you are about to be dazzled by a flash minister 2010
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However much one likes an approach – Richard Jones's outstanding drab 1950s Hansel and Gretel for WNO or Jonathan Miller's "mafioso" Rigoletto for ENO – none precludes another take.
The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010
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Is the Italians 'responsibility, and stays in our hands the power to rise up our voices and create a large unity to fight against these abuses and defeat this "mafioso" mentality.
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I am well aware that there is a Sicilian _in fabula_ who is not "mafioso"; that the crude banditism which sits in every Corsican's bones has raised him to the elysium of martyrs and heroes and not, where he ought to have gone, to the gallows; that the Maltese are not merely cantankerous and bigoted (Catholic) Arabs, but also sober, industrious, and economical.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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Chavez called Uribe a "mafioso" also during a Friday speech.
FOXNews.com 2010
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Chavez called Uribe a "mafioso" also during a Friday speech.
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Chavez called Uribe a "mafioso" also during a Friday speech.
The Seattle Times 2010
willc2 commented on the word mafioso
(adj): Brazilian slang for shady, untrustworthy
June 21, 2009