renegade

noun ren·e·gade \ ˈre-ni-ˌgād \

Definition of renegade

1 :a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another

2 :an individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior

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Examples of renegade in a Sentence

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stories about pirates and renegades on the high seas

Recent Examples of renegade from the Web

But this week’s reporting paints a new nightmare scenario for congressional Republicans — one in which a renegade president compounds the political costs of their legislative failures by sabotaging the economy, just before the midterm elections.

— eric levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "Trump Seems to Genuinely Want a Trade War With China," 29 Aug. 2017
The commission is the U.S. branch of a binational agency charged with monitoring and reporting any renegade flows into the Tijuana River channel.

— sandra dibble, latimes.com, "Cross-border sewage spill? No, the flow came from the U.S. side," 28 Aug. 2017
A new renegade style was born, and today some Super Tuscans are among the most sought-after and expensive wines produced in Italy.

— michael austin, chicagotribune.com, "What you need to know about sangiovese, Italy's biggest-selling grape," 24 Aug. 2017
A federal jury in Las Vegas on Tuesday returned verdicts of not guilty for four men accused of numerous charges for acting as gunmen in a 2014 standoff led by renegade rancher Cliven Bundy against federal authorities.

— Alaska Dispatch News, "Bundy followers found not guilty at Nevada trial," 23 Aug. 2017
Astrologically, a prominent Uranus gives one a renegade, iconoclastic and unpredictable nature.

— rebecca gordon, Harper's BAZAAR, "What the Upcoming Eclipse Means for Donald Trump and His Presidency," 10 Aug. 2017
Willard must push through the physical and psychological morass that is the Vietnam War in search of Marlon Brando’s renegade Col.

— chris kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, "The best Baltimore-area events this week: Big Glen Burnie Carnival, Baltimore Restaurant Week and Trifecta Food Truck Festival," 23 July 2017
In apparent protest of the award, a group of Chinese business and cultural leaders established an alternative to the Nobel, the Confucius Peace Prize, and later honored such human rights renegades as Vladimir Putin, Fidel Castro and Robert Mugabe.

— harrison smith, Alaska Dispatch News, "Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate imprisoned in China, dies at 61," 13 July 2017
His impulse, at least judging by the patterns of conservative governance in America recently, quite likely would be to call upon the governor and the Texas legislature to impose some good conservative policy on the renegade liberals from above.

— max bloom, National Review, "Let Liberal Cities Do What They Want," 13 July 2017

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