How to Use mafioso in a Sentence

mafioso

noun

• Bill Burr is Don, a returning mafioso, back from prison.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• Every great mafioso album needs a great crime caper of a song.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• Meanwhile, in Russia, oligarchs and mafioso were on the ascent.
  — Craig Unger, vanityfair.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• Once the mafioso is dead, Oraetta uses her mouth to remove a ring from his cold dead hand, and places it on her own finger.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• That didn’t stop him from continuing to report on the mafia and taking a number of the mafiosi who threatened him to court.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 20 May 2018
• This was always the mafioso-like logic at the heart of Trumpism, and its latest expression could not be more garishly clear.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 7 July 2021
• To prepare for the role of Dickie, a mafioso whose charisma conceals a jumble of violent and tender urges, Nivola spent months with a dialect coach.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2021
• Some wineries will relish the opportunity to be seen as the mafioso’s beverage of choice.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2023
• Where Biggie rapped as a mafioso who had lieutenants working for him, Black Rob talked about having a small crew of dudes that would rob folks in underground tunnels.
  — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2021
• The movie stars Jennifer Tilly as a mafioso’s girlfriend, and Gina Gershon as the ex-convict hired to do renovations on their apartment.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 7 June 2022
• Paul Sorvino could play more than a mobster, even though mafioso roles became standards in his prolific career.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
• Its portrayal of the LAPD is a sordid one, in which the police have become a mafioso-like organization willing to do anything for the highest bidder.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
• Clean-cut, with a penchant for oversized glasses and black clothing, Shulaya, who was from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, looked more tech bro than mafioso.
  — Garrett Graff, Longreads, 5 June 2018
• The Vatican/mafioso entanglements remain murky and a little flat.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Though Dickie never appeared on the show, he was occasionally mentioned with admiration as a wild-card mafioso of decades past.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
• Bill Camp is marvelously reptilian as a Brooklyn mafioso who lures them into an uneasy cross-borough alliance.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2019
• Get our daily newsletter Gangs are nothing new: bikers and Balkan mafiosi have traded drugs and occasional bullets in Sweden since the early 1990s.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• Ghostface has a knack for emotional honesty and upbeat absurdism that’s matched by Raekwon’s sterner, harsher mafioso tales.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2021
• While De Niro has a somewhat rough time shifting between macho mafioso and weepy sentimentalist, Crystal is more consistent as feisty Ben.
  — David Hunter, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2020
• Unsurprisingly, as with many post-Soviet regimes in places like Uzbekistan, Russia, and Kazakhstan, the notion of the first family as mafiosi has gained increasing cachet over the past few years.
  — Casey Michel, New Republic, 14 July 2017
• Translation: Expect an old-school meets new-school Vegas vibe in a room packed with local Vegas power players and visiting high rollers looking for a mafioso-like trattoria cum steakhouse.
  — Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2022
• While appearing to be ‘revolutionary brethren in arms’, Maduro grants them certain powers and criminal territories to run as great mafiosi do.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, miamiherald, 22 June 2018
• When, in 1971, the Italian government banished its worst mafiosi to live on Filicudi, the islanders, via total noncooperation, sent them packing.
  — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
• Haldwell's student life is predicated upon the coexistence of these quasi-mafioso families.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2020
• Iran’s reluctance to negotiate is driven by Washington’s mafioso approach to diplomacy.
  — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2021
• But under looming deadlines, when reporters and editors delayed in finishing stories, Ms. Ferguson-Rohrer was known for firing off intra-office missives that were caustic and sometimes profane, with a certain mafioso persuasiveness.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024