badman
Americannoun
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badmen
plural
noun
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Origin of badman
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Deacon is entertaining as a wannabe "badman" and the soundtrack is solid.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2011
But in Comeback, the irredeemable badman Parker returns, tougher than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman.
From Time Magazine Archive
It ends in a crescendo of sentimentality when Thomas Meighan, the lawyer for many a badman of the underworld, reforms and, as crusader, discovers that his sweetheart's father is the biggest gun among the gunmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
His feet were flipping and he yipped as if challenging some wolf badman in his dreams.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
Mercury is so short that badmen in the Southwest, aping the Atlanta copper capers, have in the last four months stolen an estimated $70,000 worth of mercury from unattended gas-well meters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Canyon's enemies will be business crooks instead of routine badmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Texas Rangers were still combing the coulees for cattle thieves and badmen when the Texas Pacific Land Trust was organized in 1888.
From Time Magazine Archive
It tells the familiar old western yarn about the good guy v. the badmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Picking up badmen is no more dangerous here than it would be in New York.
From Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
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