perpetrator

noun

Definition of perpetratornext
as in offender

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  1. perp
  2. criminal
  3. assassin
  4. gunman
  5. felon
  6. bandit
  7. malefactor
  8. outlaw
Noun
  • But even if your name is one in a million, a perp could offer up that name to the police, perhaps with a fake ID.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
  • She was expected to survive the shooting as the perp remained at large.
    Shant Shahrigian, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
Definition of perp
Noun
  • Trump has said deportations will focus on criminals first, as immigration enforcement has since former President Barack Obama's presidency.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The film focuses on young Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) — who's accidentally left home alone over the holidays — and his clever plans to outwit a pair of criminals trying to rob his home on Christmas Eve.
    Athena Sobhan, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of criminal
Noun
  • Many others have expressed condemnation and voiced disgust with those showing support for the alleged assassin.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
  • There was little chance The Day of the Jackal, Peacock and Sky’s remake of Fred Zinnemann’s classic 1973 thriller, was going to do its titular assassin dirty in the end, especially since it was already announced the hit series (now a Golden Globe nominee!) would be getting a second season.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of assassin
Noun
  • Mangione was taken into custody Monday at a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a customer recognized him based on photographs of the gunman distributed by NYPD.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Suspect Luigi Mangione’s fingerprints also matched a water bottle and a protein bar wrapper that police found near the scene and that officials say the gunman purchased at a nearby coffee shop while awaiting his target, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at an unrelated news conference.
    Michael R. Sisak and Mark Scolforo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of gunman
Noun
  • Detectives can pull video from the gun store and review evidence for a potential arrest for charges such as being a felon in possession of a firearm, violating a restraining order or violating terms of bail, the inspector said.
    Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
  • In most cases, those who do make these crossings face civil penalties, or removal, but they are rarely prosecuted as felons.
    Dan Gooding, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of felon
Noun
  • Guided by Kudrow’s Penelope, the bandits embarked on epic adventures while evil forces were an obstacle.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The bagel at the base of her breakfast bandit has a direct connection to her youth: The dough is prepared daily at A&S Bagels in Franklin Square, N.Y., not far from the streets where Chersevani developed a taste for a bagel and schmear.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
Definition of bandit
Noun
  • If not properly secured, OTA updates may be intercepted and altered by malefactors, risking the reliability of the entire system.
    Klaudia Zaika, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The season’s first two episodes created the impression that Masa’s former workplace would be a significant entity in the series, but it was quickly displaced by the yakuza, a more familiar, less interesting malefactor.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
Definition of malefactor
Noun
  • The pills don’t work in every scenario, many women who use them to circumvent restrictions fear being prosecuted, and a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of three conservative states seeks to both outlaw mifepristone for minors and prevent it from being mailed.
    Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Mainstream lesbian artists in the Nineties existed along a very narrow sonic spectrum, spanning from outlaw country to roots-rock, with little room in between.
    Abigail Covington, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of outlaw
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