antimob

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ mob

Adjective

antimob (comparative more antimob, superlative most antimob)

1. Opposing the actions of a mob.
   • 1987, Paul A. Gilje, The Road to Mobocracy, page 100:

     By 1811 and 1812, magistrates like De Witt Clinton used the antimob rhetoric of the late 1790s and moved forcefully to restrain political popular disorder.

   • 2002, Robert M. Utley, Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers, page 261:

     Some had been killed for the offense, one on the basis of a child's schoolyard report of her father's antimob comments at the dinner table.

Anagrams

• Bamonti