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

Translations

offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] n → delincuente m/f;

(against regulations) → infractor(a) m/f

offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] offend n → délinquant(e);

(against regulations) → contrevenant(e)

offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] offend n → Straftäter(in) m(f)

offender [əˈfɛndəʳ] n → delinquente m/f;

(against regulations) → contravventore/trice