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adj. - Characteristic of an unruly crowd.

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  • "Say 'no' to health care!" they chanted in a moblike throng around his motorcade's path.
  • EPSTEIN: Well, his objective is to say that his role in this is still a sideshow, he's being convicted by a moblike media mentality.
  • No child should be subjected to the moblike cruelty that has characterized some of the incidents in schools where the child has ultimately taken his or her own life.
  • Emphasizing the crowd means deemphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad moblike behaviors.
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