English > offender: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who transgresses moral or civil law. |
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| Synonym | wrongdoer |
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| Narrower | abuser, maltreater | someone who abuses |
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| attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter | someone who attacks |
| barrator, barrater | someone guilty of barratry / barratry |
| convict | A person who has been convicted of a criminal offense |
| deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true |
| delinquent, juvenile delinquent | A young offender |
| deserter, defector | A person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) |
| gonif, goniff, ganef, ganof | (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) |
| malfeasant | One guilty of malfeasance |
| molester | someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities |
| no-show, nonattender, truant | someone who shirks / shirks duty |
| perpetrator, culprit | someone who perpetrates wrongdoing |
| pimp, procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce | 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 |
| recidivist, backslider, reversionist | someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior |
| reprobate, miscreant | A person without moral scruples |
| shark | A person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest |
| shyster, pettifogger | A person (especially a lawyer or politician / politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods |
| sinner, evildoer | A person who sins (without repenting) |
| transgressor | someone who transgresses |
| usurper, supplanter | One who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another |
| war criminal | An offender who violates international law during times of war |
| Broader | bad person | A person who does harm to others |
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| Spanish | delincuente, infractor, malhechor |
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| Catalan | infractor, malfactor |
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| Verbs | offend | act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises |
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