career criminal

noun

: a person who has committed many crimes throughout his or her life

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Walken plays Brad Whitewood Sr., a career criminal who lets his troubled teen son, Brad Jr. (an electrifying Sean Penn) join the family business — to both of their eventual regret. Jason Bailey, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024 The 31-year-old career criminal has been taken into custody for a range of offenses nearly every year since his first arrest. Mollie Markowitz, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024 His persecution meant that, suddenly, the conditions for prisoners in French Guiana had come to the attention of the world, a new reality that had huge consequences for career criminal Eddie Guerin. Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024 Listen to this article The Queens convicted killer who shot and wounded an NYPD cop along with an innocent bystander before he was shot dead was a career criminal with more than 17 felony arrests stretching back to the 1980s, police said Wednesday. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for career criminal 

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“Career criminal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/career%20criminal. Accessed 11 Jan. 2025.

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