corrupter

noun

variants also corruptor
Definition of corrupternext
1
as in perverter

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2
as in criminal

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corrupter
  1. criminal
  2. villain
  3. reprobate
  4. inducer
  5. lawbreaker
  6. felon
Noun
  • Other potential responses focus on the perpetrators rather than the puppeteers, prosecuting the petty criminals who carry out acts of sabotage or, in the Baltic Sea, boarding and impounding the offending vessel, as Finland did recently, and following up with a court case.
    Tamar Jacoby, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In her petition, Conley wrote that deploying CHP officers and Solano County sheriff's deputies to Vallejo could help address crime, serve as a deterrent to potential criminals and provide support to an overworked police force.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of criminal
Noun
  • Also tossed in are picturesque but gratuitous use of famous tourist landmarks as background, near-superheroic training montages, credible intimate character dynamics, a ruthless villain (Johan Heldenbergh as Vanaken) and action that in the home stretch goes absurdly over-the-top.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
  • And though Young and (especially) the perpetrators of the massacre are clearly the villains of the piece, their past history at least partly explains their choices.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of villain
Noun
  • Imagine Millennial filmmakers asserting a new neorealism to examine the intimate, fraternal, and familial relations of those infamous Martin, Brown, and Floyd reprobates.
    Armond White, National Review, 19 June 2024
  • All these years later, all of us remain just as torn about these enormously charismatic reprobates.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
Definition of reprobate
Noun
  • Because Lost had not yet trained us to expect such surprises, this was a genuine gasp inducer.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 4 July 2024
  • For the first two years of analysis, I was consumed with feelings of reproach and even hatred against my parents, seeing them as all-culpable vehicles and inducers of neurotic misery.
    Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of inducer
Noun
  • Los Angeles County public officials are vowing to crack down on people stealing from homes as devastating wildfires rip through the region, insisting that lawbreakers will face consequences.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Hochman said his office would specifically go after lawbreakers linked to gangs.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of lawbreaker
Noun
  • Smith pleaded guilty on July, 9, 2024, to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, according to court records.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Clubfoot, also of Zuni, faces additional charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, assault resulting in serious bodily injury, use of a firearm during a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, according to the news release.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of felon
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