transgressor

noun

Definition of transgressornext
as in offender

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  1. criminal
  2. lawbreaker
  3. reprobate
  4. villain
  5. felon
  6. sinner
  7. wrongdoer
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
  • 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
  • But this harlequin moll can’t match Joker’s lunacy as either lawbreaker or musician.
    Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of lawbreaker
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
  • Or even an appearance from Tom Holland’s Peter Parker that would mean two hours haven’t been wasted watching this forgettable origin tale of a villain who’s not really THAT bad.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The Grinch bore a striking resemblance to Jim Carrey's version of the beloved Christmas villain.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of villain
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
  • Perhaps out of a shared sense of guilt, Oppenheimer yearns to give these sinners a chance to atone for their mistakes.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • There was a strongly confessional element to the TRC’s operation; sinners came to the hearings seeking absolution, and victims came seeking to forgive so they might be liberated from their pain.
    Sisonke Msimang, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
Definition of sinner
Noun
  • So there's a law firm in Seattle that has mounted a lot of very famous successful class action suits against large wrongdoers.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Local leaders say public pieces like murals and sculptures have the power to both beautify and protect the city by letting would-be wrongdoers know that a community is cared for.
    Justin L. Mack, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of wrongdoer
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