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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The sacrament of Confession in Catholicism is one way to get sins pardoned, releasing the sinner from eternal punishment.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • This work, for me, brought to mind Giovanni da Modena’s extraordinary early-fifteenth-century fresco in Bologna’s Basilica of San Petronio depicting the devil and his demons eating sinners in hell.
    Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of sinner
Noun
  • Along with beautification, local leaders say public art has the power to foster a sense of ownership among residents and let would-be wrongdoers know that an area is cared for.
    Justin L. Mack, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
  • According to Pelletier, the DOJ's approach often leaves individual corporate wrongdoers untouched, even when the DOJ says there's evidence of serious misconduct.
    Brian Mann, NPR, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of wrongdoer
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