What's the difference between bandit and gangster?

Bandit


Definition:

  • (n.) An outlaw; a brigand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
  • (2) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
  • (3) After all, on any sober calculation of relative sins, HSBC's dealings with Mexican drug bandits were surely several leagues more serious than other banks' Libor-rigging scandals.
  • (4) For two decades, bandits and kidnappers have kept out the tourists who used to flock to the temple of the queen, while the desert hinterland has become a haven for jihadis and militants of various stripes.
  • (5) Like a bandit who has cajoled his way in, the parasite now forces his host to prepare a banquet for him.
  • (6) If it becomes a sanctuary for terrorists, narcotics traffickers, jihadists and bandits, our neighbours will be affected too.
  • (7) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
  • (8) Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne’s Rather Be is currently top of its chart, having been streamed 32m times in the UK in the first nine months of 2014, putting it ahead of the 30m streams of Pharrell Williams’ Happy.
  • (9) It is an occasionally dangerous, always beautiful place, rich in history and tradition, often presented in the news media as bandit country.
  • (10) Bandits have taken over.” In the sanatorium kitchen volunteers were making lunch.
  • (11) Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries for aid workers, al-Shabaab, pirates and bandits have all targeted aid workers in recent months with kidnappings and shootings.
  • (12) Idon't know why they call him Bandit; I hope it's just because he's fun.
  • (13) The film takes a bleak view of US expansionism, depicting some pioneers as cheats, brutes and bandits, I say.
  • (14) And having had Clean Bandit over to my home for an intimate after party after seeing them perform live in Miami, I have to say that I couldn’t wish more happiness and success to such a lovely, talented group of people.
  • (15) Aid officials and residents say Dadaab is becoming more dangerous as bandits kill, rape and steal, and Islamic militants target civilians and Kenyan security forces with bombs and shootings.
  • (16) Without impostors, nationalists and bandits, without tanks and APCs, and without secret visits of the director of the CIA … UPDATE: Medvedev again warned of civil war in Ukraine after a meeting Tuesday with his counterparts from Belarus and Kazakhstan, Reuters reports: Medvedev said on Tuesday he hoped that the authorities in the Ukrainian capital have "enough brains" to prevent a further escalation of the conflict in the east of the country.
  • (17) The war in Chechnya ended, bandits disappeared from the streets and both the existential and economic despair of the Soviet collapse began to ease.
  • (18) The navy and air force crave another Libya, where they "bravely" spent half a billion pounds replacing a nutcase with a bunch of bandits.
  • (19) They say they are ready to defend Crimea against all unwanted intrusions, namely western authorities and the new administration in Kiev, seen by many in the region as bandits and terrorists who seized power illegally.
  • (20) He looks like a Canadian mountie who has just arrested some robot time bandits at the border.

Gangster


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
  • (2) We acted in Sierra Leone for similar reasons, though frankly even if that country had become run by gangsters and murderers and its democracy crushed, it would have been a long time before it impacted on us.
  • (3) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
  • (4) The killer's taste in movies stretches from westerns to gangster thrillers to Elvis Presley musicals: apple-pie imports that were boycotted by socialist president Sukarno's coalition before the coup.
  • (5) "These kids aren't gangsters," he says, but they face the same pressures that drove him into crime.
  • (6) Equally popular was the stylish Borsalino, starring Belmondo and Alain Delon as insouciant gangsters in 1930s Marseilles.
  • (7) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
  • (8) Blatter is suspended now, but the Blatter regime is still in place, even if it is beginning to resemble a scene from a gangster movie, where the dons gather around their boardroom table in ever-depleting ranks, empty chairs marking those now in the hands of the law.
  • (9) He'll play Sweets, a junior gangster with an amphetamine addiction.
  • (10) De Niro and Scorsese, of course, were paired together on a string of crime and gangster films including Mean Streets, GoodFellas and Cape Fear, and their reunion as been much speculated on since their most recent film together, 1995's Casino.
  • (11) Detectives were so sure that the perpetrators of the "Doner murders" were foreign gangsters, probably from Turkey, that they codenamed the investigation Operation Bosphorus.
  • (12) Scott drove the deal after seeing the Red Riding trilogy and taking it to Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian, with whom he previously collaborated on American Gangster and Hannibal.
  • (13) But I want to talk about The Wire , which to my shame I came to somewhat late, despite the fact that Michael K Williams [who plays shakedown artist Omar in The Wire ] and I are both in Boardwalk together [Williams plays nightclub owner and gangster Chalky White].
  • (14) Filled with classic British gangster-movie iconography – hard London faces hung upside-down from meathooks, the stock-car pile-up – The Long Good Friday is also a grownup, despairing look at Britain on the edge of an economic and political precipice.
  • (15) Spurred on by his scheming wife, who, with her gangster son Marko, sought refuge in Russia, Milosevic betrayed and abandoned almost everyone who served him - from Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the political and military masterminds of the war in Bosnia, to his patron Stambolic, the former Yugoslav president Dobrica Cosic, Jovica Stanisic and his long-time secret police chief - not to mention the Serbs of Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo whom he used and encouraged for the wars before simply dropping them when the going got tough.
  • (16) An offshore company connected to David Hunt , reported in 2011 by the Sunday Times to be a gangster, is also named in the files.
  • (17) She said she hoped the inquest would discredit competing theories about her husband's death, which have flourished with Kremlin encouragement in Russian media: that her husband killed himself, was murdered by MI6, or was targeted by Chechen gangsters.
  • (18) He critiques Gangster No.1 like an Oxbridge intellectual (the direction, he says, is "very Nic Roeg-ish"), remarks that one of his favourite film-makers is Robert Bresson, and relates how he once enraged inmates while working in the prison library by screening Monte Hellman's radical art-house classic Two Lane Blacktop at his weekly film show.
  • (19) In Hugo's list of Parisian gangsters active in the 1830s, there is a stowaway: "Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, or Hotwhack, Springlike, Golightly Brujon.
  • (20) That's a higher tally than has been achieved so far by the similarly self-distributed London gangster film All Things to All Men , aggressively marketed and released the same day at over 100 cinemas.