English > malefactor: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
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| Synonyms | criminal, felon, crook, outlaw |
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| Instances | Bonney, William H. Bonney, Billie the Kid | United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881) |
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| 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, Robert MacGregor, Rob Roy | Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734) |
| Narrower | accessory, accessary | someone who helps another person commit a crime |
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| arsonist, incendiary, firebug | 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 / incites) you to commit a wrongful / wrongful act |
| conspirator, coconspirator, plotter, machinator | 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 |
| 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 |
| hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer | An aggressive and violent young criminal |
| jail bird, jailbird, gaolbird | A criminal who has been jailed repeatedly |
| kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher | someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) |
| mafioso | A member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States |
| moll, gun moll, gangster's moll | The girlfriend of a gangster |
| murderer, liquidator, manslayer | A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful / unlawful / unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) |
| probationer, parolee | someone released on probation or on parole |
| pusher, drug peddler, peddler, drug dealer, drug trafficker | An unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs |
| racketeer | someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud / fraud or extortion) |
| raper, rapist | someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse |
| recidivist, repeater, habitual criminal | 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 |
| smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser | someone who imports or exports without paying duties |
| thief, stealer | 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 |
| violator, lawbreaker, law offender | someone who violates the law |
| Broader | principal | (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement |
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| Spanish | criminal, delincuente, forajido, malhechor, transgresor, trasgresor |
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| Catalan | criminal, delinqüent, malfactor, transgressor |
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