noun
definition
A person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction.
Examples of vigilantes in a Sentence
The Crowby Crawler, a notorious serial rapist, is back on the streets with a mob of baying vigilantes at his heels.
Walking along the top allows vigilantes to get you easily.
Do you support the vigilantes that chased vandals that damaged cars in Paston?
At the grassroots level, individual families are arming themselves while communities have set up armed vigilantes and neighborhood watches.
The idea of urban vigilantes challenging an untouchable crime boss was staid even then, following Double Dragon, Final Fight and their ilk.
I have long suspected that there are street vigilantes forcing people to dig up streets endlessly.
These vigilantes were the good citizens (the committee of 1851 included some Boo and that of 1856 some6000-8000citizens of all classes), who organized outside of law, " not secretly, but in debate, in daylight, with sobriety and decorum," to defend and establish, through defying, its rule.
Later events however, prove him innocent and a revengeful spirit haunts each of the vigilantes with bizarre consequences.
Local vigilantes took matters into their own hands and put various lubricants on the pole holding the sign to make it impossible to climb.
All of this valuable information will go a very long way in ensuring that your pair of Vigilantes is in top working order!
Despite Cat Grant's plan to bring down all of the "vigilantes," Clark still steps between Cat and danger when Deadshot comes gunning for her.
Hans ' example led others in Amsterdam to become masked vigilantes, which in turn led to intense police attention.
Hans is mentioned as having encouraged other citizens of Amsterdam to become costumed vigilantes.
We must, moreover, take action which is firm enough to pre-empt action by self-appointed vigilantes.