brigand
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He’s both the handsome and heroic Jamie Lockhart and, his face stained with berry juice, he’s a dashing but dastardly brigand.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2016
This brigand may not be as wily as he thinks he is, but Leone loved him enough to let him survive the famous shootout and still be hanging around, so to speak, at the end.
From Time • Jun. 25, 2014
In contrast to Francis Wheen's raucous account of Marx's life as hack, brigand and rapscallion, Sperber places the history of ideas at the heart of his study.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2013
When he was but a baby brigand in the employ of the University of Pittsburgh, Calipari's recruiting tactics very nearly incited a general hooley at the Big East's annual meeting.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2010
It was no brigand or orc-chieftain that ordered the assault upon the Lord of Mordor’s greatest foe.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Joy Luck Club
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 6
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