desperado

Still, with his chest-hugging T-shirt and rugged handsomeness, Mr. Bernthal recalls John Travolta in his early prime rather than the sweaty, disheveled but endearing desperado memorably created by Mr. Pacino.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

“He certainly is not a negro desperado, but an intelligent gentleman, whose appearance speaks for him,” she wrote.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2022

East Chicago police in the raiding squad said “two Department of Justice men” executed the desperado, but would not name them.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2019

A meek store clerk becomes a desperado on the run with the girl he saved and his grandfather in tow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2018

“Just fine,” she said, and wondered who else in Maycomb still remembered Scout Finch, juvenile desperado, hell- raiser extraordinary.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Qf6, and no amount of desperadoes can deflect White’s mating attack.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

“It’s telling our history, about citrus wars, about Chicano murals, about the Black Panther Party, about desperadoes — all of those stories.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2017

His experience pursuing desperadoes and fugitives—and once being a fugitive himself—allowed Hester to think like his prey.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2016

In these days of expletive strewn reality TV shows it is easy to forget just how incendiary Rotten and his band of desperadoes were.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012

Tom became increasingly adept at dealing with what he called “rascality”: cow rustlers, horse thieves, scalawags, pimps, rumrunners, stagecoach robbers, desperadoes, and other human transgressors.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

You’ve turned some of the state’s women into desperados.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2022

After an infield single by Carlos Correa loaded the bases for rookie slugger Yordan Álvarez, this looked like a horrid night for desperados, even in Nats gear.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2019

It’s such a strong performance that in moments, despite Mr. Richet’s attention to detail — the shiny chrome, the desperados, the pretty sun-kissed color — the movie all but fades, leaving only Mr. Gibson.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2016

Among the warring gang of desperados who make up the titular Hatefuls, Tarantino needed someone to play a convict called Daisy Domergue, wild-haired, foul-mouthed.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2016

He realized also that the vicious nature of the desperados whom Garman had placed upon his drained land and the desperate measures which would be necessary to regain possession of his own.

From The Plunderer by Henry Oyen