Murderer vs Desperado - What's the difference?
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A person who commits murder.
*1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
*:It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer .
A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
*1850 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Latter-Day Pamphlets)'', ''The present time
*1918 , (Willa Cather), (My Antonia) , Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
*:Surely this was the face of a desperado .
(chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
Murderer is a related term of desperado.
As nouns the difference between murderer and desperado
is that murderer is a person who commits murder while desperado is a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the wild west.murderer
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(en-noun)- The kind of persons who excite or give signal to — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes , acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.