desperadoes

Noun

The word is derived from desperado

Meaning

of Desperado

Source: Webster's dictionary

Antonyms

Examples

In this last remnant of the Wild West – where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom Terror”, roamed – many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. Source: Internet

With its fractured account of junkies and assorted urban desperadoes, its fang-baring humor and its sudden excursions into sheer hallucination, it instantly made him the depraved scoutmaster for generations of would-be hipsters. Source: Internet

We revisit Desert Desperadoes (you can read a previous excerpt in our October 2006 issue) in this centennial year as a reminder of how wild New Mexico remained even near the turn of the century that would usher in statehood. Source: Internet

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