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Desperate criminal   /dˈɛsprɪt krˈɪmənəl/   Listen
Desperate criminal

noun
1.
A bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier).  Synonym: desperado.





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"Desperate criminal" Quotes from Famous Books



... open to the most desperate criminal in the islands, but not to you. Go! Go! At once! (She turns her head in great anxiety towards the long line of rooms where Rachael is examining the windows.) Surely she cannot hear us; the wind is too great. (Raising her voice again.) You cannot enter. If my daughter opens ...
— The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories • Gertrude Atherton


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