mob
noun
a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
mobbish
-
a word derived from
mob.
Example Sentences
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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 Samuel Richardson
Perhaps mob and mobbish are rather unfortunate terms.
From Anthropology by R. R. (Robert Ranulph) Marett
Mr. Fox treated the associations for prosecuting these libels as tending to prevent the improvement of the human mind, and as a mobbish tyranny.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
