gallows bird

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gallows bird
Noun
  • Because the traits that make someone a hero in a story can easily lend themselves to being painted as a villain, too.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin play estranged old friends who reconnect at the funeral of a mutual friend, only to realize that their friend's dead husband was really the villain in all their lives.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These surreal, blood-red dioramas depict the gruesome punishments awaiting sinners in the Chinese Buddhist afterlife.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
  • An unlicensed casino grows up to be a Baptist college, one that doesn’t shy away from its sordid past, as Christ himself never shied away from a sinner.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The papers said the sheriff was taking a trespasser to court who’d lived in a tree for 10 years.
    Denver Post, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2025
  • New security measures come as the Department of Public Safety conducts an internal review of the circumstances that led to a trespasser gaining access to the Capitol.
    Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Maryland continues to maintain a civil justice system that favors wrongdoers instead of people innocently injured due to negligence.
    Bruce M. Plaxen, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2025
  • So, people may feel compelled to condemn the wrongdoer to restore a sense of justice.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • That kind of content always fascinated me, both sides of it, actually, the victimology and the perpetrator’s perspective.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The surprise perpetrator The documentary shows the body camera footage from the day police confronted Kendra.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Best button man in the biz.
    Craig Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2021
Noun
  • Robinhood rolled out its own perp offering in the EU a month earlier and is probably looking for a way to bring it stateside.
    Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The cops had brought in a millionaire perp and maybe for the first time ever in Norfolk County, the hackerama couldn’t fix the case.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There’s also a tropical storm circulating, as if the gangsters flew in from the tropics.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Others are new, building on a genuinely fresh and funny revelation that explains not only a cold open involving yakuza gangsters half a world away in Osaka, but also why this quaint town is sitting on a stash of weaponry big enough to overthrow the governments of several small nations.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Gallows bird.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallows%20bird. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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