mafioso
a member of a Mafia or of a mafia.
Origin of mafioso
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How to use mafioso in a sentence
ROME, Italy — The competition among Mafiosi-in-the-making can get pretty tough in Sicily.
A handful of Mafiosi serving sentences in Italian prisons started cooperating with the police, becoming “pentiti” or turncoats.
Pope Francis May Be Risking His Life by Taking on the Mafia | Barbie Latza Nadeau | June 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“The Mafiosi can not have possession of good things,” Emiliano said at a press conference after the killings in Puglia.
It was a feud between Mafiosi who rubbed each other out with mortars or cannons.
30 Years After the Beirut Bombing We Have Learned Nothing | Christopher Dickey | October 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe bar was a gathering place for gamblers, mobsters, mafiosi, and, occasionally, corrupt cops and agents.
Whitey Bulger’s Women: Inside the Terror and Glamour of His Ex-Girlfriends | T.J. English | June 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The ancestors of the mafiosi used to call themselves Cristiani—that is Men in the sense of men of courage and silence.
Castellinaria | Henry Festing Jones
British Dictionary definitions for mafioso
/ (ˌmæfɪˈəʊsəʊ, Italian mafiˈoso) /
a person belonging to the Mafia
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