Antonyms for Mafia
ˈmɑ fi ə, ˈmæf i əmafi·a

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1. Mafianoun

   A crime syndicate

   Synonyms:
   mob, Cosa Nostra

2. Mafianoun

   A trusted group of associates of a political leader

   Somehow he managed to piss off the Russian Mafia.

   Synonyms:
   mob

Matched Categories

1. • Clique
   • Organized Crime
   • Syndicate
   • Terrorism

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostranoun

   a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia

   Synonyms:
   maffia, mafia

2. Mafia, Maffia, Sicilian Mafianoun

   a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century

   Synonyms:
   maffia, mafia

3. mafia, maffianoun

   any tightly knit group of trusted associates

   Synonyms:
   maffia, mafia

How to use Mafia in a sentence?

1. Hamed Kouyate:

   You're in the hands of the mafia.

2. Arturo Pierre Martinez:

   The illegal war carried out against the nation of Iraq serves as a perfect example of how the U.S. government acts much like a Mafia enterprise ... criminally plundering entire nations of their resources, strategic reserves and economies.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   The United States is helping to recover a brighter future for Venezuela. We're here to urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the Venezuelan people as they try to free themselves from former President Maduro's illegitimate mafia state.

4. John Gibbs:

   I think one analogy that you could look at here is the mafia, for many years, you could never arrest them. You knew they were throwing guys off roofs and stuff but all you could get them for was tax evasion and money laundering because you don't quite have the legal and investigative framework in place to catch them.

5. Patricia Bullrich:

   A case has been resolved, if it hadnt been resolved, it would mean a profound political crisis because there is a member of the lower house of Congress fighting for his life after suffering an attack from a mafia clan that didnt hesitate to kill a person for personal issues.

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