Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of desperado.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word desperadoes.

Examples

  • PENHAUL (on camera): And as the countdown to the January 30 elections continues, government officials believe the resistance fighters whom they describe as desperadoes will step up their sabotage campaign.

    CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2004 2004

  • We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.

    After the Crash, a Crashing Bore Peggy Nooonan 2010

  • We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.

    After the Crash, a Crashing Bore Peggy Nooonan 2010

  • We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.

    After the Crash, a Crashing Bore Peggy Nooonan 2010

  • We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.

    After the Crash, a Crashing Bore Peggy Nooonan 2010

  • We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.

    After the Crash, a Crashing Bore Peggy Nooonan 2010

  • We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.

    After the Crash, a Crashing Bore Peggy Nooonan 2010

  • Rand assured him that the desperadoes were the same that had been referred to, and he continued:

    The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor

  • Watson's house, and took him from his bed, amid screams of 'murder' from his wife and seven children; but the only reply the wife and children received at the hands of the desperadoes was a beating.

    A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

  • We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.

    Tammy Bruce Maynard 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.