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offender

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of·fend·er  (-fndr)
n.
One that offends, especially one that breaks a public law: a corrections institution for youthful offenders.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.offenderoffender - a person who transgresses moral or civil law
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

offender
Translations
Spanish offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] ndelincuente m/f;
(against regulations) → infractor(a) m/f

French offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] offend ndélinquant(e);
(against regulations) → contrevenant(e)

German offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] offend nStraftäter(in) m(f)
Italian offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] ndelinquente m/f;
(against regulations) → contravventore/trice

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There is little doubt that my pretty piglet has been eaten by that horrid kitten, and if that is true the offender must be punished.
I should be the last man in the world to object, since I am myself an offender in that respect.
In a word, he never pardoned because the offender himself, or his friends, were unwilling that he should be punished.
 
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