malefactor
English Thesaurus
1. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime (noun.person)
hypernym | : | principal, |
definition | : | (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | accessary, accessory, |
definition | : | someone who helps another person commit a crime (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist, |
definition | : | a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | briber, suborner, |
definition | : | someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | gangster, mobster, |
definition | : | a criminal who is a member of gang (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | highbinder, |
definition | : | a corrupt politician (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | highjacker, hijacker, |
definition | : | someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | mafioso, |
definition | : | a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | liquidator, manslayer, murderer, |
definition | : | a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | parolee, probationer, |
definition | : | someone released on probation or on parole (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | racketeer, |
definition | : | someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | raper, rapist, |
definition | : | someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | scofflaw, |
definition | : | one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | stealer, thief, |
definition | : | a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | traitor, treasonist, |
definition | : | someone who betrays his country by committing treason (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | james, jesse james, |
definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | macgregor, rob roy, robert macgregor, |
definition | : | Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734) (noun.person) |
derivation | : | criminalize, |
definition | : | treat as a criminal (verb.social) |
derivation | : | lawless, outlaw, |
definition | : | disobedient to or defiant of law (adj.all) |
derivation | : | criminalize, |
definition | : | treat as a criminal (verb.social) |
derivation | : | lawless, outlaw, |
definition | : | disobedient to or defiant of law (adj.all) |
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