offender

of·fend·er  (-fndr)

n.

One that offends, especially one that breaks a public law: a corrections institution for youthful offenders.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

offender - a person who transgresses moral or civil law wrongdoer abuser, maltreater - someone who abuses aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks bad person - a person who does harm to others barrater, barrator - someone guilty of barratry convict - a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true delinquent, juvenile delinquent - a young offender defector, deserter - a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff - (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) transgressor - someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command; "the way of transgressors is hard" malfeasant - one guilty of malfeasance molester - someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities nonattender, truant, no-show - someone who shirks duty culprit, perpetrator - someone who perpetrates wrongdoing fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer, ponce - someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) principal - (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement backslider, reversionist, recidivist - someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior miscreant, reprobate - a person without moral scruples shark - a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest pettifogger, shyster - a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods evildoer, sinner - a person who sins (without repenting) supplanter, usurper - one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another war criminal - an offender who violates international law during times of war

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offender

noun criminal, convict, con (slang), crook, lag (slang), villain, culprit, sinner, delinquent, felon, jailbird, wrongdoer, miscreant, malefactor, evildoer, transgressor, lawbreaker Sex offenders often attack again when they are released.

Translations

offender [əˈfəndəʳ] N

1. (= lawbreaker) → delincuente mf; (against traffic regulations etc) → infractor(a) m/f
first offender → delincuente mf sin antecedentes penales

2. (moral) → transgresor(a) m/f, pecador(a) m/f
regarding air pollution, industry is the worst offender → en lo que se refiere a la contaminación atmosférica, la industria es la mayor culpable

3. (= insulter) → ofensor(a) m/f

offender [əˈfɛndə^r] n

(= criminal) → délinquant(e) m/f

(against regulations) → contrevenant(e) m/f

to be the worst offender [thing, person] → être le grand coupable

offender

n (= law-breaker) → (Straf)täter(in) m(f); (against traffic laws) → Verkehrssünder(in) m(f); sex offender → Sexualstraftäter(in) m(f); who left that here? — I’m afraid I was the offender → wer hat das da liegen lassen? — ich war der Übeltäter; they are the worst offenders when it comes to … → wenn es um … geht, sind sie die schlimmsten ? first offender, young offender

offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] n (frm) (criminal) → delinquente m/f; (culprit) → reo/a, colpevole m/f

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offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] n (frm) (criminal) → delinquente m/f; (culprit) → reo/a, colpevole m/f