Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transgressor
Noun
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In a recent spree of clemency for white collar criminals, President Trump has pardoned Utah entrepreneur Trevor Milton, who was convicted in 2022 of misleading investors in his hydrogen and electric truck company Nikola.—
Erin Alberty,
Axios,
1 Apr. 2025 -
Malik revealed that his goal was to practice law, specifically focusing on criminal law and personal injury and criminal.—
Francesca Gariano,
People.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The union leadership tried to broker a deal with Hochul, but that was ignored. Republicans serving in Congress and the state Legislature, who always tout law and order, shamelessly sided with the lawbreakers.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Mar. 2025
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President @realDonaldTrump has delivered a powerful message and the world is taking notice: America's borders are CLOSED to lawbreakers.—
Mandy Taheri,
Newsweek,
8 Mar. 2025
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No decent person, let alone a political movement downstream of the biblical, Judeo-Christian tradition, as American conservatism necessarily is, should lift a finger to welcome such a wretched reprobate to our shores or shield him from justice.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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Whereas Serena could easily have emerged as a one-note villain, from the beginning of her tenure on the series, Strahovski has imbued Serena with a soulfulness that often puts the audience uncomfortably on her side, despite her reprehensible actions.—
Scarlett Harris,
IndieWire,
7 Apr. 2025
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Even when a big threat does arrive on the scene, the heroes aren't there right away, so plenty of innocent people get hurt before a villain gets brought to justice.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The man was out on bond for DWI with a child passenger and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, the complaint said.—
Kate Linderman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2025
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Yusuf faces charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with an intent to distribute 400 grams of fentanyl powder, being a felon in possession of a firearm and having an unregistered short-barrel rifle, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacramento Bee,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Everyone’s a sinner — Elijah Gemstone and his descendants more than most.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2025
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Goggins is simply incredible, fully committed to Baby Billy’s comic lunacy yet never losing sight of his recovering sinner’s withered heart.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
9 Mar. 2025
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While revoking an Oscar is practically unheard of (the only instance dates back to 1969, when Young Americans briefly held the Best Documentary Feature title before it was disqualified over an eligibility technicality), the Academy has found other ways to reprimand Tinseltown's wrongdoers.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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The promise of criminal prosecution of a person responsible for such a death may seem righteous and like an effective deterrent against future wrongdoers.—
Michael Abrams,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Transgressor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transgressor. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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