DESPERADO Synonyms

• someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

• bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

• guilty of crime or serious offense

• involving or being or having the nature of a crime

• a young offender

• guilty of a misdeed

• failing in what duty requires

• past due; not paid at the scheduled time

• someone who flees from an uncongenial situation

• someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

• lasting for a markedly brief time

• a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it

• someone who violates the law

• someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

• contrary to or forbidden by law

• disobedient to or defiant of law

• declare illegal; outlaw

• someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

• someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

• a ship that is manned by pirates

• copy illegally; of published material

• take arbitrarily or by force

• someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw

• a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

• having deserted a cause or principle

• break with established customs

• a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

• a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)