Synonyms of recidivist

recidivist

noun

as in offender

formal a person who continues to commit crimes even after being caught and punished

Synonyms & Similar Words

• offender
• criminal
• lawbreaker
• backslider
• misdemeanant
• accomplice
• culprit
• principal
• jailbird
• miscreant
• crook
• convict
• malefactor
• outlaw
• perpetrator
• desperado
• relapser
• repeater
• sinner
• perp
• trespasser
• transgressor
• wrongdoer
• thug
• villain
• hoodlum
• hooligan
• gangster
• defendant
• racketeer
• mobster
• arrestee
• fish
• evildoer
• suspect
• detainee
• triggerman
• gunsel
• misfeasor
• misdoer
• gallows bird
• gun
• blackhander
• enforcer
• button man
• hit man
• gunman
• accused

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lawman
• gangbuster

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of recidivist

Overall numbers on recidivist crimes are hard to establish because the Russian government restricts the release of any public information that puts the war in a bad light. —Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024

In February 2023, the 66-year-old Augustine was waiting for a subway train in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood when he was randomly pushed onto the tracks allegedly by a homeless stranger police described as a 44-year-old recidivist criminal. —Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024

Of recidivist criminals in front of the parole board. —Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 8 Feb. 2024

Various animals, some insects and a few recidivist restaurants lowlight this week’s Sick and Shut Down List of restaurants in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Palm Beach metropolitan area. —David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024