Noun
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a person who transgresses moral or civil law
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offender |
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bad person a person who does harm to others
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abuser,
maltreater someone who abuses
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assailant,
assaulter,
attacker,
aggressor someone who attacks
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barrater,
barrator someone guilty of barratry
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convict a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
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cheater,
deceiver,
beguiler,
slicker,
trickster,
cheat someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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delinquent,
juvenile delinquent a young offender
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defector,
deserter a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)
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ganef,
ganof,
gonif,
goniff (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
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transgressor someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command; "the way of transgressors is hard"
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malfeasant one guilty of malfeasance
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molester someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities
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nonattender,
no-show,
truant someone who shirks duty
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culprit,
perpetrator someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
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pandar,
pander,
pimp,
fancy man,
panderer,
ponce,
procurer someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
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principal the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
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backslider,
reversionist,
recidivist someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
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miscreant,
reprobate a person without moral scruples
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shark any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
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shyster,
pettifogger a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
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evildoer,
sinner a person who sins (without repenting)
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supplanter,
usurper one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
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