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racketeer noun contrabandist, criminal, dealer in illicit goods, extorter, gangleader, gangster, illicit dealer, malefactor, member of organized crime, miscreant, offender, underworld character, underworld gangster How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Less ludic than Chesterton, in fact incapable of any simple joyfulness that might have relieved the grim world of whiskey priests and Viennese racketeers, Greene was surer of the existence of hell than of heaven. New York City in the early 1930s was mired in the depths of the Depression and gangsters and racketeers ran the city. If politicians are exposed as the racketeers that they are, maybe honesty can make an even bigger comeback than morality. |
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