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In the indictments, prosecutors referred to the group ominously as “The Family,” a name, with its mobbish and Mansonian connotations, that was seldom, if ever, used by the ELF.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has described blaming individuals for the banking crisis as "lynch mobbish".

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2013

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.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel

And be judicial, arithmetical, in passing sentence on it; not shrieky, mobbish, and flying off into the Infinite!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas

But the priestly order, if originally by their training at all adorned with the graces proper to their profession, would not have fallen under the influence of acts so entirely mobbish.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various