meliante

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish maleante. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: me‧li‧an‧te === Noun === meliante m or f by sense (plural meliantes) delinquent, criminal, outlaw Synonyms: delinquente, bandido, criminoso layabout (someone who does not work) Synonym: vagabundo (figuratively) a despicable, shameless person === Further reading === “meliante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “meliante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026