gallows bird

noun

Definition of gallows birdnext
as in villain

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gallows bird
  1. villain
  2. sinner
  3. wrongdoer
  4. perp
  5. gangster
  6. mobster
  7. thug
Noun
  • Or even an appearance from Tom Holland’s Peter Parker that would mean two hours haven’t been wasted watching this forgettable origin tale of a villain who’s not really THAT bad.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Sony still had the film rights to multiple Spider-Man villains and side-characters, and thus, went to work building its own universe.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of villain
Noun
  • Perhaps out of a shared sense of guilt, Oppenheimer yearns to give these sinners a chance to atone for their mistakes.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • There was a strongly confessional element to the TRC’s operation; sinners came to the hearings seeking absolution, and victims came seeking to forgive so they might be liberated from their pain.
    Sisonke Msimang, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
Definition of sinner
Noun
  • So there's a law firm in Seattle that has mounted a lot of very famous successful class action suits against large wrongdoers.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Local leaders say public pieces like murals and sculptures have the power to both beautify and protect the city by letting would-be wrongdoers know that a community is cared for.
    Justin L. Mack, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of wrongdoer
Noun
  • But even if your name is one in a million, a perp could offer up that name to the police, perhaps with a fake ID.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
  • She was expected to survive the shooting as the perp remained at large.
    Shant Shahrigian, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
Definition of perp
Noun
  • Rolling with the sound of Slo-Be Bryant 3, one of the great West Coast tapes of the 2020s, Slo-Be’s steely, ominous murmurs give his sentimental gangster rap the air of sorcery.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2024
  • It is described as an epic crime series about the most powerful gangster in history to ever turn state’s evidence and an in-depth look at the inner workings of the Mafia.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of gangster
Noun
  • He’s most commonly associated with his role as OLTL mobster Carlo, which earned him a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 1992.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Moderator Grae Drake asked Reeves how far he was pushed to play the titular hitman who gets revenge on the Russian mobsters responsible for the death of his dog.
    Eric Andersson, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of mobster
Noun
  • Long maintaining that the protesters are just thugs, Najmeh painfully removes the rounds from Sadaf’s bleeding wounds, her assumptions about the government she’s loyally obeyed falling away.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The society of Iverson’s youth rendered him an unredeemable thug and jailed him for it as a minor.
    Marcus Thompson II, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of thug
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