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  • noun Plural form of badman.

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Examples

  • Certainly, the presence of sandbags in Tivoli, tells that the 'badmen' were certainly more prepared for what is happening than the government machinery.

    Jamaica - Full Feed 2010

  • All these movie badmen holding their pistols sideways, all the tv swat teams blasting dozens of rounds at their fantasy enemies as well as all those overgrown adolescents holding plastic gunstocks to aim at tv monitors.

    Why Americans Can't Shoot 2008

  • Volume three ends with Charles Manson, so there are plenty of bloodletters and badmen to be written about in a future volume.

    Archive 2009-05-31 Bill Crider 2009

  • Socialists think perdition is a good system run by badmen.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The ABA Wasn’t Always Liberal: 2007

  • Certainly not in the tradition of Cooper or Parkman, Ridge's book imaginatively detailed the colorful escapades of California's Robin Hood thief, thus anticipating a whole body of work extolling outlaws, gunmen, and badmen.

    Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

  • Beadle and Adams, a leading dime novel publisher, featured many works about notorious badmen.

    Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

  • Picking up badmen is no more dangerous here than it would be in New York.

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • As the movement grew, it took in the old anti-scientology protestors as sort of elder guides once it became clear that the church had teeth and thus 'wise beard man' Mark Bunker, a seasoned anti-scieno activist, with his advice to the young anons, became an elder mentor wising them up to the ways and means of activism and the badmen who lurked in government black vans.

    unknown title 2009

  • As the movement grew, it took in the old anti-scientology protestors as sort of elder guides once it became clear that the church had teeth and thus 'wise beard man' Mark Bunker, a seasoned anti-scieno activist, with his advice to the young anons, became an elder mentor wising them up to the ways and means of activism and the badmen who lurked in government black vans.

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments cam 2009

  • And of course Keith isn’t a lynching advocate–his song “Beer For My Horses” talks about the hanging of white badmen in the Old West.

    Max Blumenthal, Toby Keith, And Harry Reid 2010

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