modi operandi, modus, tactic, operandi, mindset, stratagem, pattern, mentality, ilk, subterfuges, philosophy, strategy, motives, methods, approach, mantra, antecedents, ruse, racketeers, psywar, oddjob, hirelings, phraseology, duplicity, roguery, ploys, machination, grift, accomplices, rationale, ethos, hegelian dialectic, brazenness, motivations, ingenuously, attitude, huji, credo, ideology, handiwork, reasoning, nomenclature, logic, machiavellian, strategem, antecedence, connivance, connived, cohorts, worldview, smalltime, goons, prerogative, doublespeak, proclivities, nefarious, paradigm, mannerism, untraceable, aliases, highhanded, methodology, technique, blatancy, dissembling, opportunism, devious, extortionist, perfidy, cunning, cabal, alias, dubiousness, tropes, brigandage, ruthlessness, tendencies, crooks, pusillanimity, tact, illogic, hawala, victimology, hideouts, idiom, dissimulation, spinelessness, leitmotif, cosa nostra, disguises, style, predilection, dictum, dastard, hire purchase, euphemize, euphemism, typology, persona, characteristic, cahoots, dastardly

groove, rat race, rut

procedure, process

routine