“‘Do you think’, said Candide, ‘that men have always massacred each other the way they do now? that they’ve always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands? that they’ve always been feeble, fickle, envious, gluttonous, drunken, avaricious, ambitious, bloodthirsty, slanderous, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and stupid?’
‘Do you think’, said Martin, ‘that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they find them?’” – Voltaire, ‘Candide’
The Formerly Irredeemable ’80s Return
A touchstone for fashion, music and popular culture, the decade that is remembered fondly but with a shudder is creeping back to the fore.
Motorcycle Bandit Loots $1.5 Million from Vegas Casino
His stolen casino chips are only redeemable at the scene of the crime, however.
America's Most Wanted Teen-Aged Bandit
By Tim McGirk / Camano Island
A
teenage bandit accused of stealing planes and speedboats has become a
legend in the Pacific Northwest. The chase is on for the artful dodger
irredeemable
ADJECTIVE
Derivatives
speedboat
n.
A fast motorboat.
The morning came: it was a pleasant sight to behold Mr.
Tupman in full brigand's costume, with a very tight jacket,
sitting like a pincushion over his back and shoulders, the upper
portion of his legs incased in the velvet shorts, and the lower part
thereof swathed in the complicated bandages to which all
brigands are peculiarly attached.
The Pickwick Papers
brigand
noun [C] LITERARY
an armed thief, especially one of a group living in the countryside and stealing from people travelling through the area
injured party
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: someone injured or killed in an accident
Synonym: casualty
| brigand | (noun) An armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band. |
| Synonyms: | bandit |
| Usage: | You looked more like a brigand than an honest man, with your beard six inches, and your hair a foot long. |
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