How to Use recidivist in a Sentence

recidivist

noun

• Being cast out by society is all that Hans — a recidivist if ever there was one — seems to have known.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• As a recidivist the penalty likely would be more severe.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2022
• While none of them is a BoJack-level recidivist, the friends who’ve helped to prop him up over the years have self-sabotaging patterns of their own.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• In 2020 Purdue Pharma pled guilty again in court, this time to three felonies, thus becoming a recidivist offender.
  — Ed Bisch, STAT, 18 July 2022
• Police sources described her as a recidivist who had just been arrested Dec. 8.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2022
• Put simply, Wells Fargo is a corporate recidivist that puts one third of American households at risk of harm.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• In the 1980s, Goodmark said research came out that said arrest was likely to decrease recidivist violence.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2021
• There’s a hitch to making Wells Fargo the lead example of banning corporate recidivists.
  — David Dayen, New Republic, 1 Aug. 2017
• Likely recidivists were brought in to speak with police and prosecutors, who gave warning lectures about the consequences of getting caught with guns.
  — Lynh Bui, Washington Post, 9 May 2017
• The focus then was on people who had aggravated felony convictions or who were recidivists.
  — Tessa Berenson, Time, 9 Aug. 2017
• Jarvis Taylor had three prior felony convictions, leading the DA’s office to charge him under Georgia’s recidivist law.
  — Bill Rankin, ajc, 8 June 2018
• Forgiveness for recidivists is found outside show business, too.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• The problem for Schiff, a former prosecutor, was that Trump was an unrepentant recidivist, a President who was going to keep abusing his office as long as he was allowed to do so.
  — Robert P. Baird, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• This program would, of course, be fatally vulnerable to a single Willie Horton: one recidivist would overwhelm, in the public mind, a thousand non-offenders.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Nicolas Cage’s recidivist criminal tries to go straight after marrying cop Holly Hunter.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• Now (arXiv version) scientists have determined how to figure out if black holes are first-time cannibals or recidivist cannibals.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2017
• But the states pursuing Microsoft through the court system are hoping to show that the world’s largest software maker is a recidivist monopolist in bad need of some serious remedial punishment.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 7 May 2002
• However, identification is only the first step in breaking the recidivist cycle.
  — WSJ, 8 Aug. 2017
• The Police Department and the Council are still negotiating over guidelines for when each would be used, with the civil tickets expected to serve as the default approach and criminal summonses issued for recidivists and those with warrants.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 25 May 2016
• Neither was my interview with the former congressman, mayoral candidate and apparent sexting recidivist, which appears in this weekend’s Talk feature of the magazine.
  — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2016
• Prosecutors say the images included clear depictions of child pornography and bestiality and show that Nader is a lifelong recidivist.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
• The government evaluates each case individually and reserves the right to take action against the low-priority misconduct in appropriate cases — for example, in a case involving a recidivist offender or an otherwise hardcore criminal.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 9 Sep. 2017
• In 2013, then-Attorney General Eric Holder instructed prosecutors to not seek mandatory minimum sentences against low-level drug offenders who were not violent, not major recidivists and not leaders of large criminal organizations.
  — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024