rogues' gallery

broadly idiomatic

A set of pictures of convicted or suspected criminals used in law enforcement investigations to help witnesses identify suspects.

Japanese Meaning

犯罪者の写真一覧（捜査支援用） / 警察捜査において、被疑者の特定のために使用される犯罪者の写真集

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The detective spread the old rogues' gallery on the table to see if any witness recognized a face.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

刑事は、目撃者が顔を識別できるか確認するために、古い指名手配犯の顔写真一覧をテーブルに広げた。

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Sense（1）

A set of pictures of convicted or suspected criminals used in law enforcement investigations to help witnesses identify suspects.

When the policemen arrest a man . . . if there is good reason to suspect him, they take his picture before they let him go. . . . Then they put the picture up in the rogues' gallery among the others, where everybody who comes there can see it.

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Sense（2）

(idiomatic, by extension) Any group of lawbreakers or other disreputable characters.

The old staple of every demonstration: gully gully may shor hai, Congress Party chor hai—the cry goes up in every alley, Congress Party is a 'rogues' gallery—was very much in evidence.

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Sense（3）

(fiction) The set of supervillains associated with a particular superhero or comic book title.

rogues' galleries

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