badman
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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
Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman.
From Time Magazine Archive
A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her shorter stories are her best, and in tales of Indian, settler, miner and badman, she subtly suggests the tragedy of collision between aborigine and invader, and sometimes the more complicated tragedy of their collusion.
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
In the Southwest, famed for its tough badmen, a tough good man died last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nobody seems to care that Captain Video is no longer battling extraterrestrial badmen in outer galaxies.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of her best stories, I Woke Up Wicked, is the tale of an unheroic cowboy who inadvertently becomes a member of a gang of badmen called the Rough String.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir: The debunking of Western badmen in your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored.
From Time Magazine Archive
Picking up badmen is no more dangerous here than it would be in New York.
From Free Air by Lewis, Sinclair
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