desperado

Still, with his chest-hugging T-shirt and rugged handsomeness, Mr. Bernthal recalls John Travolta in his early prime rather than the sweaty, disheveled but endearing desperado memorably created by Mr. Pacino.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

“He certainly is not a negro desperado, but an intelligent gentleman, whose appearance speaks for him,” she wrote.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2022

East Chicago police in the raiding squad said “two Department of Justice men” executed the desperado, but would not name them.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2019

“You got to hand it to the guy,” a juror who voted to convict Tucker told journalist David Grann about the desperado, who died in 2004.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2018

“Just fine,” she said, and wondered who else in Maycomb still remembered Scout Finch, juvenile desperado, hell- raiser extraordinary.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Qf6, and no amount of desperadoes can deflect White’s mating attack.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

“It’s telling our history, about citrus wars, about Chicano murals, about the Black Panther Party, about desperadoes — all of those stories.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2017

His experience pursuing desperadoes and fugitives—and once being a fugitive himself—allowed Hester to think like his prey.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2016

In these days of expletive strewn reality TV shows it is easy to forget just how incendiary Rotten and his band of desperadoes were.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012

Reports from agents and informants like Morrison suggested that several of these desperadoes had knowledge about the murders.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The Special Operations Division of the DEA often goes overseas to capture desperados with elaborate undercover stings.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2022

You’ve turned some of the state’s women into desperados.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2022

Either way, this is an easy watch, especially with a glass of wine, a bowl of crisps, looking at these ripped desperados, and asking yourself, “Who’s really winning?”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2020

After an infield single by Carlos Correa loaded the bases for rookie slugger Yordan Álvarez, this looked like a horrid night for desperados, even in Nats gear.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2019

With hand uplifted she called by name the desperados, who had taken shelter in the darkness and to those who now came running from front and rear where their attacks had been unsuccessful.

From The Inn at the Red Oak by Latta Griswold