Offender
[ə'fendə(r)] or [ə'fɛndɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Transgressor, culprit, trespasser, criminal, delinquent, malefactor, convict, felon.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CULPRIT]
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Examples
- I will not be interfered with by Jane, said Mrs. Pocket, with a majestic glance at that innocent little offender. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He's no public offender, bless you, now! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That makes him a public offender directly, sir. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The offender's sorrow brings but small relief To him who wears the strong offence's cross. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The moment he addresses himself to the Government, he becomes a public offender! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The offender had barely time to take Mrs. Leo Hunter's proffered hand, when his eyes encountered the indignant orbs of Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He is a public offender. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mas'r George, however, joined the offender in the laugh, and declared decidedly that Mose was a buster. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You wouldn't suppose him to be a public offender; would you? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is appointed against such offences that the offenders shall not be able to forget. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There were numerous clerical prisons in which offenders might pine all their lives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ancient, abstract and wholesale justice is breaking up into detailed and carefully adapted treatment of individual offenders. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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