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

Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, U30 lister Tom Holland, is back on the screen to beat both villains and records.

— Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The aforementioned Richie Aprile, played wonderfully by David Proval, makes for one of the most menacing villains of the series.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 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

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This high-security prison is a sprawling complex that houses thousands of detainees, including notorious gangsters, terrorists and prominent white-collar offenders.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
Especially when the protagonists are fighting gangsters, offensive editors, twitchy Vatican librarians, and an oversized Jason Momoa, to claim the hand of Gal Gadot’s two characters, one in the present, one in the past.

— A.D. Amorosi, SPIN, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of gangsters

Noun

The new manager solved the Bang Records problem by walking into a Ninth Avenue warehouse and handing over $20,000 in cash to two mobsters dressed to the nines.

— Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Hoffa drove to a restaurant in a Detroit suburb to meet two reputed mobsters.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 July 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

Definition of hoodlums

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