gallows birds

plural of gallows bird

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gallows birds
Noun
  • Like Scorsese’s work, Miller’s documentary is both big and small, local and global, and dense with sinners and saints alike.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
  • These surreal, blood-red dioramas depict the gruesome punishments awaiting sinners in the Chinese Buddhist afterlife.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their success obviously wasn't permanent, given Hocus Pocus 2 sees the villains return — but hey, almost 30 years of banishment is a pretty good run.
    Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Still, the Expos' downfall is not without its villains.
    Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In The Big Lebowski, thugs mistake the titular slacker (Bridges) for the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, sending him on a wild investigation with his pal Walter (John Goodman) into a ransom plot involving Lebowski’s young wife (Tara Reid).
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Their neighbor, an older Jewish woman, gets arrested and Nazi thugs brazenly loot her apartment.
    Rabih Alameddine September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Two sisters with a tragic story are said to linger upstairs at Langston’s Western Wear, and unexplained voices and rattling glassware have been heard at Gabriella’s Italian Grill, a Prohibition-era building with a gangsters and gambling history.
    Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In those times, young people who self-described as gangsters fought for territory, and one of their subversive acts was to tag the walls of the city with the verses of cumbia songs.
    Karla Gachet, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The police chief is in bed with mobsters.
    Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This time, the suspects include mobsters and billionaires, which couldn’t be more New York, actually.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Aleah and Grasso end up saving Lizzie’s ass and capturing the hoodlums.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • However, hoodlums and thugs who throw objects at the players give up their rights and should be removed, charged, and possibly jailed.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
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“Gallows birds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallows%20birds. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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