Meanings
adjectivegodfatherlike (comparative more godfatherlike, superlative most godfatherlike)
comparative more godfatherlike · superlative most godfatherlike
- Resembling or characteristic of a mafia leader; implacable, having understated power, etc.
The story had at its centre a godfatherlike figure of larger-than-life stature, and all the elements of a tragic drama.
2008, Susan Long, The perverse organisation and its deadly sins, page 69
Origin
From godfather + -like, referring to Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather (1969) and subsequent films about a Sicilian Mafia family.
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