vigilante
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- noun
- /ˌvɪdʒɪˈlænti/
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justiciero
- The small town had formed a vigilante group to protect itself from rising crime rates.
- vigilante justice
- self-appointed vigilantes
- a vigilante group
So today's theme is vigilante justice for superheroes.
- So today's theme is vigilante justice for superheroes.
- This kid wasn't a vigilante, Miss AOC.
- So the main issue is vigilantes that do it for the publicity.
- Don't go in and become some vigilante and try to throw people through the picture window.
- It kind of allows for the creation of these almost vigilante groups.
- They could come and go, but they all went back into the prison shelters because they were afraid of vigilante justice outside there.
- They were like a vigilante group that were out there trying to rid the world of Pablo Escobar.
- So I thought this was a one off, but it turns out this guy's a vigilante all over the great city of Philadelphia.
- So really, and it's just like it's such a key element to his character in the fact that he's sort of regarded as a vigilante by a lot of people.
- You are now what I like to deem a period poverty vigilante.
- Then it's the ability to basically become what I call the vigilante of the relationship.
- And he believed that he said, like you as what has he called me vigilante?
- I thought at the time and as the judge said, deterministic, that you're vigilante.
- And this is the youth kind of vigilante, if you like that, that you can see the most in this demonstrations.
- So one of the guys I talked to, one of the like the the vigilante gunman, I really, really hope that nobody would tell him about my original job.
Examples
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Inside each of us is a potential vigilante who wants to strike back at evil.
Academic text (2014) -
Just to be clear, we're not a vigilante squad.
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So I thought this was a one off, but it turns out this guy's a vigilante all over the great city of Philadelphia.
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There was a more organized vigilante response to crime occurring as well.
Academic text (2014) -
We hold that people can again live in communities without turning into vigilantes or becoming hostile to one another.
Academic text (2002) -
Her father responded to her story by forming a vigilante party to avenge his daughter's mistreatment.
Academic text (2008) -
Many locals supported the actions of the vigilante who confronted the drug dealers in their neighborhood.
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After a series of burglaries, a few residents took it upon themselves to act as vigilantes and patrol the streets at night.
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Etymology
The word vigilante comes from a Spanish word meaning 'watchman' and from the Latin vigilare meaning 'to watch', and it shares the same root as the English word vigil, which is a time of watching. A vigilante is therefore someone who watches for people who break the law and acts on their own, outside the legal system.