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Meanings of desperate criminal in English

Portuguese
bandido
Catalan
criminal desesperat

A bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)

        bandido
        Synonyms
        Examples for "desperado"
        Examples for "desperado"
        1
        But I was brave enough now; a very desperado in the daylight.
        Wanderers
        2
        The full current of the river was between them and the desperado.
        Ben Blair / The Story of a Plainsman
        3
        An armed desperado slapped my face in the presence of twenty spectators.
        What Is Man? and Other Essays
        4
        One eye still on the desperado, he searched for the steel handcuffs.
        Man-Size
        5
        He is the desperado frantically clutching at an uncertain and impossible satisfaction.
        Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
        Usage of desperate criminal in English
        1
        This convict is the most daring and desperate criminal in the Missouri penitentiary.
        The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
        2
        For some months you lived as a desperate criminal in Seattle.
        The Sky Line of Spruce
        3
        He is a desperate criminal to have followed Paul about as he did.
        Frank and Andy Afloat; Or, The Cave on the Island
        4
        Just to think of that easy talking little man being a desperate criminal!
        The Aeroplane Boys Flight; Or, A Hydroplane Roundup
        5
        By his own statement, he is not a desperate criminal.
        Beverly of Graustark
        6
        I would open to the most desperate criminal in the islands, but not to you.
        The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
        7
        But said to accuse Strange of the deed was the act of a desperate criminal.
        The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
        8
        Dr. Morton turned to the desperate criminal.
        The Exploits of Elaine
        9
        Surely this was a most desperate criminal.
        Gold of the Gods
        10
        And crawling through a duct in pursuit of a desperate criminal is no time to be having fantasies.
        Crown of Slaves
        11
        They looked at him curiously as if surprised that such a desperate criminal should be solicitous about a dog.
        The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
        12
        He looked, as he stood there, more like a dandified city clerk than the desperate criminal suggested by Hill's confession.
        The Hampstead Mystery
        13
        Then I could communicate with Leroux at once and procure the apprehension of this Berty-or Fournier-whoapparently was a desperate criminal.
        Castles in the Air
        14
        There's no depth a desperate criminal won't sink to, as you're about to see… Check out the frantic video for yourself below.
        The South African
        15
        This is a loaded revolver, and if you force me I shall use it on you as I would on any other desperate criminal.
        Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
        16
        Will you use your vaunted gifts to hunt down the desperate criminal, and, in your own picturesque phraseology, set your heel upon his neck?
        The Evil Shepherd
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        bandido
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