GALLOWS BIRDS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

gallows birds

noun

plural of gallows bird

as in sinners

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Noun

That relationship was based on sinners confessing their sins to this vicar.

— Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
Far too pure for the sinners who run this godless theocracy.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of sinners

Noun

Em details how Alan Rickman who played Hans Gruber, one of the most iconic villains in film history, offered director John McTiernan several key ideas that improved the film.

— Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
That moment sealed his fate as one of the biggest Cubs villains in Cubs-Cardinals history.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026

Definition of villains

Noun

New York’s Bivens Act remedies this by extending the protections of Section 1983 to all individual government wrongdoers — including federal ones.

— Joel B. Rudin, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026
The overpowering moral authority of wronged women, #MeToo’s skeptics alleged, would allow cynical wrongdoers to weaponize claims of victimhood for their own gain.

— Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 9 June 2026

Definition of wrongdoers

Noun

Remember all those fake memoirs from the early 2000s, by all those writers pretending to be addicts and gangsters and Holocaust survivors?

— James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
In each, the protagonist(s) will be sought by both police and gangsters yet will lose their own money and have to get along without any while on the run.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of gangsters

Noun

Hoffa drove to a restaurant in a Detroit suburb to meet two reputed mobsters.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 July 2026
In Breaking Bear, a family of furry forest dwellers use everything in their power — including high explosives and drug money — to fight the frackers, mobsters, and a monstrous wolf pack threatening to destroy their home.

— Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 25 June 2026

Definition of mobsters

Noun

In the past decade, the leadership of the Kinahan organization has become rich and cosmopolitan, and their life styles have started to resemble those of international businessmen more than of street hoodlums.

— Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
The first pictures McCullin took were of hoodlums and down-and-outs, subjects that reflected his own hardscrabble background.

— Andrew Pulver, Air Mail, 31 Jan. 2026

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