"offender" | Definition and Related Words

offender

Noun

A person who transgresses moral or civil law (synset 109657157)
is a type of: bad person - a person who does harm to others
subtypes:
- abuser, maltreater - someone who abuses
- aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks
- barrater, barrator - someone guilty of barratry
- convict - a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
- beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- delinquent, juvenile delinquent - a young offender
- defector, deserter - a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)
- ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff - (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
- transgressor - someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command
- malfeasant - one guilty of malfeasance
- molester - someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities
- no-show, nonattender, truant - someone who shirks duty
- culprit, perpetrator - someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
- fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer - someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
- principal - (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
- backslider, recidivist, reversionist - someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
- miscreant, reprobate - a person without moral scruples
- shark - a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- pettifogger, shyster - a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
- evildoer, sinner - a person who sins (without repenting)
- supplanter, usurper - one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
- war criminal - an offender who violates international law during times of war
same as: wrongdoer

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