gallows bird

noun

Definition of gallows birdnext
as in villain

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  1. villain
  2. sinner
  3. wrongdoer
  4. perp
  5. gangster
  6. mobster
  7. thug
Noun
  • Marlena’s John is an iconic hero, and unfailingly rescuing her from all matter of villains.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The film stars, of all people, Hugh Grant, who is said to have an amazing turn as a villain in the film.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of villain
Noun
  • In between the two extremes of saints and (supposed) sinners were women who joined religious communities, dedicating their lives to the worship of God.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • And unlike many of those films, its avoidance of forgiveness as a simple fix in turn avoids shifting the responsibility of the sin away from the sinner to the victim.
    Robert Daniels, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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
  • She was expected to survive the shooting as the perp remained at large.
    Shant Shahrigian, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
  • Many of them keep an eye out for criminal proceedings where the perp used your data.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
Definition of perp
Noun
  • Many Japanese action films are too much about fantasy, either Yakuza [gangsters] or serial killers.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Tyler takes aim at the masks people wear to hide from their true selves, evoking a middle-class gangster and a closeted religious zealot.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of gangster
Noun
  • Then, there was Tommy Heffernan’s Body Buddies, a dark comedy where a wedding photographer and a mobster keep a body hidden in the middle of an engagement shoot.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Another tweet depicted John Wick, Keanu Reeves' fictional movie character who goes on a killing spree after his beloved dog is killed by a mobster, and warned that denizens of the web may react similarly.
    Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of mobster
Noun
  • The climax, in which Dwight and his crew beat a group of nameless Chinese immigrant thugs into submission after they’re used as cannon fodder by Cal Thresher to sabotage Dwight’s wind turbines, is more important to the plot and even uglier.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Like other Diablo games, Hades would support cooperative multiplayer, but in the Arkham games, groups of thugs would circle around the Dark Knight, comic-book style, waiting to be punched in the face.
    Jason Schreier, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of thug
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