Examples of 'mafia' in a sentence

Meaning of "mafia"

Mafia refers to a type of organized crime group with Italian roots, known for its hierarchical structure, strict code of conduct, and involvement in illegal activities such as extortion, drug trafficking, and money laundering. The term is often associated with criminal syndicates that operate covertly and use violence to maintain control over territories or business operations
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  • The Mob: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian-Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
  • The international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
  • Any other specific organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.
  • A party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). Each player is secretly assigned a role within one of these teams, and the innocents attempt to identify the mafia members before they are all "murdered".

How to use "mafia" in a sentence

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You made the mafia apologize to you.
Mafia and corruption still remain a curse.
It is right that this mafia should be tackled.
The mafia has been a little unpredictable lately.
Blow dealt to drug mafia in the country.
The mafia could come bother us again.
I will cover the mafia or anything else.
The mafia owned the pizza place.
We do not call the mafia for comment.
We were told that everything here is the mafia.
Even the mafia lawyer seems surprised.
Top IQs do not join the mafia.
We had our own mafia when we were kids.
This all involves the russian mafia.
This is not the mafia or the underworld.

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They are illegal gamblers not mafia gangs.
The albanian mafia has enlisted in our military.
Padovano was a major figure in the local mafia.
We are just helping the mafia to grow richer.
I thought you guys were the gay mafia.
Here are a mafia member was cookbook author.
You make it sound like a mafia hit.
The mafia here is very lucky.
I think we have got the mafia here.
Mafia bosses are regularly put into witness protection.
We are looking into the possibility of mafia involvement.
The gay mafia do not own these people.
He got it from the source in paki mafia.
May be he was one of the mafia no more bull shitting.
I have something going on with the paki mafia.
The wood mafia is angry with me.
I gambled the company away to the mafia.
Gangsta rap and mafia do not exist here.
You should be the president of the mafia.
Toying with mafia bosses is no way to close cases.
You will look like a mafia don.
I know how the mafia would handle this.
Intelligence sources talk about a mafia motive.
This is the mafia we are talking about.
My dad said his father is in the mafia.
Paul was a real capo mafia in the martian caper.
My country is dominated by drug economy and a mafia.
The mafia needs a good network.
The difference is that mafia kills you.
The mafia continues to be a serious problem.
So you called out to your mafia connections.
All the mafia heads are intoxicated by their power.
It would not surprise me if the mafia were behind it.
The mafia kills in summer only.
Nexep is at the heart ofhuge mafia network.

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