Fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a mob of sheep. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : mob rule; mob instincts. ,mob appeal; the mob mentality. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : Spectators mobbed the courtroom. ,The crowd mobbed the consulate. From Dictionary.com.
He describes the paparazzi and public worlds of celebrities as difficult and "mobbish" with groups of very bad, very aggressive people. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Sax: New law jails paparazzi - now what? (Part 1)] Reference
If the mobs on the beach are matched with people like us becoming mobbish and loutish then everything gets suddenly a lot more scary. From Wordnik.com. [Even in a little thing] Reference
Prudence was construed into timidity, and with every abstention from lead the sailor's mobbish friends grew more daring and outrageous. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
They register disgust at anything corporate, and embrace special interest thugs of the public-employee unions and affiliates of the mobbish Teamsters and AFL-CIO. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows] Reference
Mair knows this, as he explicitly states it, yet still he uses this example as illustrative of the awfulness of the internet and the propensity of internet users to mobbish behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Attractor » 2009 » October] Reference
He treated the associations as tending to hinder the improvement of the mind, and as a mobbish tyranny; and he compared them with Lord George Gordon's mob; declaring, at the same time, that he had advised his friends in Westminister to sign the said associations, whether they agreed with them or not, in order that they might avoid destruction to their persons or their houses, or a desertion of their shops. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference
You know that we Berkshire people, thanks to our delay in recognizing the State authority, have an evil repute at Boston for a mobbish and ungovernable set. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke of Stockbridge] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6] Reference
But if the exporters had found any great advantage in continuing the trade, they could easily, when the law was on their side, have conquered this mobbish opposition. From Wordnik.com. [II. Book IV. Of Restraints Upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of Such Goods as Can Be Produced at Home] Reference
I have never in my life seen anything like the magical influence that subdued the mobbish spirit of the day and turned the jibes and sneers of an excited crowd into notes of respect and admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life":] Reference
I have never in my life seen anything like the magical influence that subdued the mobbish spirit of the day, and turned the sneers and jeers of an excited crowd into notes of respect and admiration. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
Mr. Bumets friends, the moderate party, are beyond comparison the most consid - erable men in the chapel, for estates &c. The others, though but a handful of leaders, are industrious noisy, and mobbish. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
Lowland dresses, of different colours, which, contrasted with the arms they bore, gave them an irregular and mobbish appearance; so much is the eye accustomed to connect uniformity of dress with the military character. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
Having neglected to do so, I remember little more than a confusion of unwashed and shabbily dressed people, intermixed with some smarter figures, but, on the whole, presenting a mobbish appearance such as we never see in our own country. From Wordnik.com. [Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches] Reference
They were in ordinary Lowland dresses of different colours, which, contrasted with the arms they bore, gave them an irregular and mobbish appearance; so much is the eye accustomed to connect uniformity of dress with the military character. From Wordnik.com. [The Waverley] Reference
They were in ordinary Lowland dresses, of different colours, which, contrasted with the arms they bore, gave them an irregular and mobbish appearance; so much is the eye accustomed to connect uniformity of dress with the military character. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
In this circle the body is in a manner annihilated; and so little means have they of any weighty exertion either to control or to support the crown, that, if they at all interfere, it is only by abetting desperate and mobbish insurrections, like that at Madrid, which drove Squillace from his place. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)] Reference
A mobbish town, and it deserved it. From Wordnik.com. [The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution] Reference
A mobbish kind of colhue. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
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