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  • 61bandit — Synonyms and related words: air armada, air force, badman, bogey, bravo, brigand, bummer, combat plane, cutthroat, dacoit, desperado, enemy aircraft, footpad, forager, freebooter, gangster, highwayman, holdup man, hoodlum, looter, mobsman,… …

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  • 62mugger — Synonyms and related words: Mafioso, Young Turk, aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, bank robber, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber, bookworm, bruiser, brute, bushranger, demon, devil, dragon, failing student, fiend, fire …

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  • 63outlaw — Synonyms and related words: DP, Ishmael, Judas, Uitlander, abstract, actionable, against the law, alien, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, bad guy, bad person, badman, ban, bandit, banish, bar, barbarian, betrayer, black market, blackball, blacklist …

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  • 64robber — Synonyms and related words: bandit, bank robber, body snatcher, booster, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, bushranger, cat burglar, cat man, chicken thief, con man, corsair, cracksman, crook, den of thieves, embezzler, filcher, footpad, freebooter,… …

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  • 65thief — Synonyms and related words: Judas, bad person, bandit, betrayer, booster, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, cat burglar, cat man, charlatan, cheat, con artist, con man, confidence man, convict, corsair, cracksman, criminal, crook, cutpurse, dacoit,… …

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  • 66highwayman — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. thief, robber, footpad, thug, bandit. See stealing. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bandit, outlaw, thief; see criminal , robber . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A person who steals: bandit, burglar,… …

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  • 67robber — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. thief, burglar, housebreaker, pickpocket, mugger, shoplifter, cheat, crook*, bandit, holdup man, cat burglar, second story worker, sneak thief, bank robber, swindler, embezzler, peculator, pilferer, kleptomaniac, looter,… …

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  • 68Thief — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Thief >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 thief thief robber homo triumliterarum pilferer rifler filcher plagiarist GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 spoiler spoiler depredator pillager marauder …

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  • 69pad — [16] English has two words pad, both of them borrowed from Low German or Dutch. The ancestral meaning of pad ‘cushion’ seems to be ‘sole of the foot’, although that sense did not emerge in English until the 18th century. Flemish pad and Low… …

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  • 70path — [OE] Path is a West Germanic word of uncertain ultimate origin. Its cousins German pfad and Dutch pad point back to a prehistoric West Germanic ancestor *patha, but no one is too sure where this came from (one possibility is that it was borrowed… …

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