malefactor

1. Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime (synset 109997190)
   is a type of: principal - (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
   subtypes:

   • accessary, accessory - someone who helps another person commit a crime
   • arsonist, firebug, incendiary - a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
   • blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist - a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
   • bootlegger, moonshiner - someone who makes or sells illegal liquor
   • briber, suborner - someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act
   • coconspirator, conspirator, machinator, plotter - a member of a conspiracy
   • desperado, desperate criminal - a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
   • fugitive, fugitive from justice - someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
   • gangster, mobster - a criminal who is a member of gang
   • highbinder - a corrupt politician
   • highjacker, hijacker - someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination
   • goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie - an aggressive and violent young criminal
   • gaolbird, jail bird, jailbird - a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly
   • abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher - someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
   • mafioso - a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States
   • gangster's moll, gun moll, moll - the girlfriend of a gangster
   • liquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
   • parolee, probationer - someone released on probation or on parole
   • drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher - an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
   • racketeer - someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)
   • raper, rapist - someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
   • habitual criminal, recidivist, repeater - someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
   • scofflaw - one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses
   • contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, runner, smuggler - someone who imports or exports without paying duties
   • stealer, thief - a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
   • traitor, treasonist - someone who betrays his country by committing treason
   • law offender, lawbreaker, violator - someone who violates the law
   specific instances:

   • billie the kid, bonney, william h. bonney - United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881)
   • james, jesse james - United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
   • macgregor, rob roy, robert macgregor - Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734)
   same as: criminal, crook, felon, outlaw

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