WordNet
desperate criminal
n. a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) [syn: desperado]
Usage examples of "desperate criminal".
Everybody was shaking hands with me, and from a desperate criminal I had suddenly become a hero.
Though she had remained calm and unshakable in the face of the most rigorous and aggressive cross-examination, she was exhausted by it, and haunted by a sense of culpability, of having driven Lothar to that desperate criminal folly, and now guilty of heading the pack that was pulling him down and would soon rend him with all the vindictiveness that the law allowed.
All that followed from that night, my brother's desperate criminal behavior, and my complicity, would never have occurred.