What's the difference between desperado and renegade?

Desperado


Definition:

  • (n.) A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
  • (2) where, in certain circumstances, the authorities order an open, compulsory HIV test in an individual case or unlinked tests for epidemiological purposes, or, if need be, for a physician's notification of the public health authorities in cases of desperado behaviour by HIV positive patients.
  • (3) But for his friends, it is the slower, sweeter but still just as lyrically adept songs that show Zevon off at his best, such as Desperados Under the Eaves, which Hiaasen describes as "one of the finest, coolest rock songs ever written", and Boom Boom Mancini ("One of the coldest appraisals of the sport of boxing ever written," according to King).
  • (4) These were not the hardliners and ideological desperadoes that some people might imagine: their politics felt open, self-critical and realistic about the huge tasks it faces.
  • (5) Three more albums for American followed, with 2002's The Man Comes Around in particular earning rapturous critical acclaim for commanding reinventions of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Desperado and Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus.
  • (6) She had a tiny part in the girl-gang movie Mi Vida Loca and was appearing on a Spanish-language television chat show when she was spotted by Robert Rodriguez, who was impressed by her "ballsiness" and cast her as the female lead in Desperado, the big-budget remake of his Mexican western El Mariachi.
  • (7) However, as the mockery of this year’s crop of Apprentice desperadoes gets underway, maybe we should stay aware of how we’re being “distracted”.
  • (8) My two favourite Tex-Mex establishments are Desperados (4818 Greenville Avenue, desperadosrestaurant.com ), a family-owned joint with great fajitas, and Pepe's & Mito's in Deep Ellum (2911 Elm Street, pepesandmitos.com ), which does chipotle wine sauce enchiladas I have had dreams about.
  • (9) They want to hear what the guy from Con Air and Desperado has to say.
  • (10) It's one thing to submit to this attention-seeking nonsense if you're a C-list reality TV desperado trying to get on the cover of Nuts; it's another if you are professedly one of the most powerful women in the entertainment business who has no need of such tactics.
  • (11) As an actor he has featured in EastEnders and as basketball coach Baggy Awolowo in the children's TV series Desperados .

Renegade


Definition:

  • (n.) One faithless to principle or party.
  • (n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.
  • (n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.
  • (n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Abul Fotouh, an independent Islamist and Brotherhood renegade, also appeals to many liberals and supporters of the revolution, as well as some Salafists.
  • (2) Where people were terrorised into leaving, Karadžić claimed it was the work of “criminals or renegades, and people carrying out retaliation whose own homes were burned”.
  • (3) His buddies – the far-right, climate-denying , UN-hating renegades who formed his campaign brains trust – are egging him on to simply break it, to smash it on the floor for a good laugh.
  • (4) He discussed his early influences and rock’n’roll renegades, telling us what’s so great about the bands that he’s booked for his takeover of the ATP festival at Prestatyn in April.
  • (5) He can truly be held hostage by a handful of renegade conservatives in his caucus.
  • (6) At dawn, the muezzin's call to prayer was drowned out by the sound of mortar fire as troops loyal to Saleh fought with a division of renegade soldiers for control over strategic parts of the capital.
  • (7) With renegade former Liberal MP Geoff Shaw now an independent, the major parties are locked at 43 MPs each, plus the Speaker.
  • (8) She’s such a renegade.’ “I couldn’t get the party people onboard until after the primary.
  • (9) Even as the Nairobi talks were under way, a key regional capital in South Sudan reportedly changed hands once again as a renegade tribal warlord attacked the town of Malakal and declared his allegiance to Machar’s rebels.
  • (10) There aren’t enough Trotskyists, entryists, devious Tories and random renegades to explain such an overwhelming victory.
  • (11) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Many suspect he seeks national power.
  • (12) Russell's career stuttered following the release of the cult 1980 drama Altered States, which starred William Hurt as a renegade scientist although he continued to direct, in film and on TV, throughout the 1980s and 90s.
  • (13) We’ll certainly be talking to him and the Renegades about it.
  • (14) A third Islamist, Abdel Moneim Aboul Futouh, a renegade former Brotherhood member, is also running.
  • (15) Sana'a is now gripped by street battles and exchanges of shelling between Republican Guards led by Saleh's son and a division of renegade soldiers who have been backing the pro-democracy demonstrators.
  • (16) What western leaders celebrating their victory do not and cannot say is how many civilians died in the war – some estimates rise into the tens of thousands; what are the chances of establishing a genuinely democratic, inclusive government in Tripoli; whether rival political and tribal factions and Islamists may yet turn on each other; how, in such a scenario, Britain and other EU countries can prevent mass emigration from and through Libya into southern Europe; when, if ever, the renegade Gaddafi and his cronies will face the international criminal court; and most problematic of all, how the US, Britain and France square their robust intervention in Libya with their hands-off policy towards Syria, a strategically more important country where the lethal repression of civilians exceeds anything attempted by Gaddafi this year.
  • (17) Nevertheless, the future success of more reliable renegades like Senator Warren depends on their being able to capitalise on simmering party divisions like this – arguably in much the same way that the Tea Party has leveraged power among Republicans so successfully in recent years.
  • (18) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Crispin Blunt, the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, is one of the British voices urging the US not to be lured by the myth of a strong man.
  • (19) But Llew Smith was careful not to get expelled from Labour as 20 party veterans were (it's in the rules) for openly endorsing the renegade Law.
  • (20) Group-IB, which runs one of Russia's two official internet watchdogs, said the number of malicious .su websites doubled in 2011 and again in 2012, surpassing the vast number of renegade sites on .ru and its newer Cyrillic-language counterpart.

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