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desperado

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9 lettersPronunciation /dɛspəˈɹɑːdəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted addeeoprsStarts with DEnds with O0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)

Word origin

From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.

Used in a sentence

  • Surely this was the face of a desperado.
  • The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.

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