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