Definition of Desperadoes

1. Noun. (plural of desperado) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Desperadoes

1. desperado [n] - See also: desperado

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desperadoes

despecificate
despecificated
despecificating
despecification
despeckle
despeckled
despeckles
despeckling
despect
despeed
despend
despended
despending
despends
desperado
desperadoes (current term)
desperados
desperate
desperate criminal
desperate measure
desperate straits
desperate times call for desperate measures
desperate times require desperate measures
desperately
desperateness
desperatenesses
desperation
desperations
despicability
despicable

Literary usage of Desperadoes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Plains: The Romance of Western American Exploration, Warfare, and by Randall Parrish (1907)
"The men of note on the border, who took up robbery as a trade, were seldom brawlers, and almost never swaggered through the streets posing as desperadoes. ..."

2. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... comforts—Systematic geniality—A standing puzzle — The respirator—-Scamps, fools, mendicants, and desperadoes—The wrongs of sailor-men—"Is this myself? ..."

3. The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado, with Historical by Emerson Hough (1907)
"... Scenes of desperadoes—How Bad Men Died—The Last Moments of desperadoes Who Finished on the Scaffold—Utterances of Terror, of Defiance, and of Cowardice. ..."

4. History of the North Mexican States by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, Joseph Joshua Peatfield, William Nemos (1889)
"... IMPROVED CONDITION OF TEXAS — desperadoes OCCUPY THE NEUTRAL GROUND—THEIR ORGANIZATION. WITH the opening of the nineteenth century Texas began to emerge ..."

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