gallows bird

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Noun
  • The film is currently filming in London with Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors behind the highest-grossing MCU movies ever, back behind the camera; Downey now playing the chief villain; and a slew of stars from the lost era of Fox's X-Men movies reprising their roles for the first time in years.
    EW.com, EW.com, 24 July 2025
  • In 1994, Hogan joined WCW and reinvented himself as a villain, forming the New World Order (nWo) and ushering in a new era of edgy storytelling.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • The American project is a patchwork of dreamers and doers, saints and sinners, stitched together by the thread of promise that stretches across generations.
    F. Willis Johnson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
  • Horses and men, dust and earth, saints and sinners.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • So, people may feel compelled to condemn the wrongdoer to restore a sense of justice.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Thanks to another recent court ruling, the FCC has also had a harder time fining wrongdoers, Quilici explained.
    Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Cabot, clearly mortified, turned and hid her face, and Andy Byron sunk out of the frame like the guilty party in a lineup of potential perps.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
  • The perp then sprayed the mother in the face and arm with the irritant as the train approached the Court Square-23rd St. station.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Ineffably, Renko’s qualities of solidity and rebelliousness bring my father back to me, and the whole 11-book series, set mostly in Russia (with excursions to Cuba and the Arctic Circle), is a galloping wonder, full of apparatchiks, spies, oligarchs, gangsters, and murders galore.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 July 2025
  • Aside from the already extraordinary tale of the O’Leary clan, Jim O’Leary led a life of adventure as a main cog for the city’s infamous gambling operations at a time when gangsters battled over control of the Prohibition liquor trade.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Veteran character actor Joe Marinelli, who played the cross-dressing mobster Bunny Tagliatti in 171 episodes of NBC soap opera Santa Barbara, died Sunday.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 June 2025
  • Joe Marinelli, the veteran character actor who amused and attracted admirers as the cross-dressing mobster Bunny Tagliatti on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara, has died.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The 18th Street thugs then attacked a second victim with large wooden planks, causing lacerations that required sutures.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
  • Plus, she wasn’t forced to live in a remote jungle compound surrounded by gun-toting thugs, because no one was coming after her.
    Sam Kelly, Time, 8 July 2025
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“Gallows bird.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallows%20bird. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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