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rogues' gallery

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A collection of pictures of known and suspected criminals maintained in police files and used for making identifications.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A set of pictures of convicted or suspected criminals used in law enforcement investigations to help witnesses identify suspects.
  • noun idiomatic, by extension A group of lawbreakers or other disreputable characters.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a coterie of undesirable people
  • noun a collection of pictures of criminals

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