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Noun
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S:
(n)
briber
,
suborner
(someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act)
direct hypernym
/
inherited hypernym
/
sister term
S:
(n)
criminal
,
felon
,
crook
,
outlaw
,
malefactor
(someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)
S:
(n)
accessory
,
accessary
(someone who helps another person commit a crime)
S:
(n)
arsonist
,
incendiary
,
firebug
(a criminal who illegally sets fire to property)
S:
(n)
blackmailer
,
extortioner
,
extortionist
(a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them)
S:
(n)
bootlegger
,
moonshiner
(someone who makes or sells illegal liquor)
S:
(n)
briber
,
suborner
(someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act)
S:
(n)
conspirator
,
coconspirator
,
plotter
,
machinator
(a member of a conspiracy)
S:
(n)
desperado
,
desperate criminal
(a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier))
S:
(n)
fugitive
,
fugitive from justice
(someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice)
S:
(n)
gangster
,
mobster
(a criminal who is a member of gang)
S:
(n)
highbinder
(a corrupt politician)
S:
(n)
highjacker
,
hijacker
(someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination)
S:
(n)
hood
,
hoodlum
,
goon
,
punk
,
thug
,
tough
,
toughie
,
strong-armer
(an aggressive and violent young criminal)
S:
(n)
jail bird
,
jailbird
,
gaolbird
(a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly)
S:
(n)
kidnapper
,
kidnaper
,
abductor
,
snatcher
(someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom))
S:
(n)
mafioso
(a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States)
S:
(n)
moll
,
gun moll
,
gangster's moll
(the girlfriend of a gangster)
S:
(n)
murderer
,
liquidator
,
manslayer
(a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))
S:
(n)
probationer
,
parolee
(someone released on probation or on parole)
S:
(n)
pusher
,
drug peddler
,
peddler
,
drug dealer
,
drug trafficker
(an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs)
S:
(n)
racketeer
(someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion))
S:
(n)
raper
,
rapist
(someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse)
S:
(n)
recidivist
,
repeater
,
habitual criminal
(someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior))
S:
(n)
scofflaw
(one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses)
S:
(n)
smuggler
,
runner
,
contrabandist
,
moon curser
,
moon-curser
(someone who imports or exports without paying duties)
S:
(n)
thief
,
stealer
(a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)
S:
(n)
traitor
,
treasonist
(someone who betrays his country by committing treason)
S:
(n)
violator
,
lawbreaker
,
law offender
(someone who violates the law)
S:
(n)
Bonney
,
William H. Bonney
,
Billie the Kid
(United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881))
S:
(n)
James
,
Jesse James
(United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882))
S:
(n)
MacGregor
,
Robert MacGregor
,
Rob Roy
(Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734))
derivationally related form