Noun:

குற்றமிழை குழு,

mafia's Usage Examples:

Is there a stash of "misfit ornaments" somewhere?Or, in the eyes of some, a band of social misfits running their own private mafia.

Here and there it was based upon a bastard Socialism, ~ in other places it was made a means of municipal ~ party warfare under the guidance of the local mafia, and in some districts it was simply popular effervescence against the local octrois on.

Narrator: While the town is sleeping, the mafia is out doing dastardly deeds.

The mafias have not yet, as they have in some EC countries, successfully infiltrated mainstream politics.

Almost the only respect in which the Left could boast a decided improvement over the administration of the Right was the energy displayed by Nicotera in combating brigandage and the mafia in Calabria and Sicily.

What would readers prefer: a city full of out-of-control drunks or quiet houses or even private bars full of peaceful stoners?No functional illiterates; no stoners; no trenchcoat mafia.

For a start, will he revoke the Government's 1999 order behind which the Tories are hiding for their dastardly deed?Narrator: The mafia finally went to bed in the wee hours of the night after committing dastardly deeds.

Synonyms:

Cosa Nostra, syndicate, Maffia, crime syndicate, family, mafioso, mob,

Antonyms:

decompress, disarrange, empty, unpack, tasteful,