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
But you don't have to be an anarchist or a brigand to sense the power shift.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2011
She had been collected by some brigand or another for a friend of mine, who said she couldn't have her in the house.
From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2010
It was a baby pike, absolutely rigid and probably asleep, and it looked like a pipe stem or a sea-horse stretched out flat It would be a brigand when it grew up.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing brigand
The Joy Luck Club
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The Shakespeare Stealer
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 6
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