Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a brigand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
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- adjective like a
brigand orrobber
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Examples
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There was an air about him which on the spur of the moment he might have called "brigandish" -- the way he wore his hat, a slight swagger, a something lawless that surely he never had acquired in his peach orchard in Delaware.
The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Death to Obama the brigandish jew capitalism warmonger dog!
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Death to Obama the brigandish jew capitalism warmonger dog!
Korean tweets 2009
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Sometimes these tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn countenance.
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The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.
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There was nothing brigandish or romantic about the appearance of the very ordinary-looking young man who put in an appearance at Starden village.
The Imaginary Marriage Henry St. John Cooper
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It had begun to drizzle, as it so often does during the winter in Northern France, and this man wore a bedrabbled cloak -- a brigandish-looking cloak -- over his blue smock.
Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier Alice B. Emerson
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Parisian workman could not conceal a certain brigandish air that was second nature to them.
Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg
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He was fully thirty-five years of age, quite tall, and as a merry girl expressed it, brigandish-looking.
Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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His messenger had not yet returned, but there in the vestibule was Ralston, in his brigandish sombrero and his black velvet jacket, looking so fit and wholesome that Paul envied him.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
qroqqa commented on the word brigandish
A favourite North Korean word, e.g.
Now that the U.S. and its followers got the UNSC issued its brigandish "presidential statement" critical of the DPRK's launch of satellite conducted according to the requirements and norms of international law, gravely infringing upon its sovereignty and security, it was entirely just for the DPRK to have exercised its right to just self-defence to protect itself from outsiders' threat of aggression.
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The grave reality in which the situation is inching close to the brink of a war due to the brigandish moves of the U.S. and its followers proves how the DPRK was right when it has bolstered up the nuclear deterrent for self-defence based on the Songun politics.
—KCNA, 9 June 2009
June 10, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word brigandish
B.B.C. News:
July 14, 2009