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The desperado might be lying in wait for them, and it would be well for them to proceed slowly and carefully.
THE ADVENTURE GIRLS AT K BAR OCLAIR BLANKAnd his daughter—can she identify this young desperado the moment she sees him?
FRANK MERRIWELL'S BRAVERYBURT L. STANDISHHe can move upon an armed desperado and quell him and take him a prisoner without saying a single word.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINEThe Commissioner happened to be in Calgary and asked the Superintendent himself to see about the capture of this desperado.
CORPORAL CAMERONRALPH CONNORAnother desperado, lunging his spear through the after-port of the brig, mortally wounded the master.
HOW BRITANNIA CAME TO RULE THE WAVESW.H.G. KINGSTONHe was practically a desperado, who made his living by hunting, and was not liked even by those who professed to be his friends.
THE DARE BOYS IN VIRGINIASTEPHEN ANGUS COXThe whole room looked toward the desperado as if expecting him to do something.
THE INCENDIARYW. A. (WILLIAM AUGUSTINE) LEAHYHe was later shot by desperado Joe Fowler, with a double-barrel shot gun, as he lay in bed asleep.
HISTORY OF 'BILLY THE KID'CHAS. A. SIRINGOYet to desert a comrade in that fashion was abhorrent even to the slack conscience of this desperado.
A PAGAN OF THE HILLSCHARLES NEVILLE BUCKA reformed desperado told my that he supposed he had killed men enough to stock a graveyard.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARTEMUS WARDCHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (AKA ARTEMUS WARD)WORDS RELATED TO DESPERADO
- bad actor
- bad guy
- bad person
- baddie
- baddy
- black marketeer
- blackmailer
- con
- convict
- crook
- culprit
- delinquent
- desperado
- deuce
- evildoer
- ex-con
- felon
- fugitive
- gangster
- guerilla
- heavy
- hood
- hoodlum
- hooligan
- hustler
- inside person
- jailbird
- lawbreaker
- malefactor
- mobster
- mug
- muscle
- offender
- outlaw
- racketeer
- repeater
- scofflaw
- sinner
- slippery eel
- thug
- transgressor
- trespasser
- wrongdoer
- yardbird
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.