Criminal synonyms
krĭm'ə-nəl
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A person who flees, especially from a legal process, persecution, or danger.
A government with which one's country is at war
A wild, lawless person, often a member of a gang of criminals
A member of an organized group of criminals; a racketeer.
underworld character
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A person serving a sentence in prison
One who behaves badly, often by breaking rules of conduct or the law.
(Law) Having the nature of, relating to, or concerning a felony:
A wrongdoer or evildoer.
A delinquent person; esp., a juvenile delinquent
A member of a criminal gang or crime syndicate.
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(Archaic) A person living with others in the same building
moral (antonym)
Of or concerned with the judgment of right or wrong of human action and character:
hardened criminal
The definition of a felon is a person who has been convicted of a felony (a serious crime for which the penalty is normally one or more years of incarceration).
One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.
perp
(Slang, law enforcement) Perpetrator.
One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically.
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Someone who transgresses.
scofflaw
An iconoclast.
criminaloid
(Botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
Wrong or unjust:
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righteous (antonym)
Moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
Not sanctioned by custom or law; improper or unlawful.
Extremely violent or injurious; cruel:
malefactory
law-abiding citizen (antonym)
lawbreaker
One who sins or does wrong; a transgressor.
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innocent (antonym)
The definition of an innocent is a person free from wrongdoing, guilt or evil.
wicked (related)
Evil or immoral:
The act or an instance of conning; swindle; trick
Deserving of condemnation
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Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
Deserving rebuke or censure:
prosecution (related)
money laundering (related)
crime (related)
fraud (related)
war-crimes (related)
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non-criminal (related)
homicide (related)
offender (related)
racketeering (related)
felony (related)
criminal law (related)
(Informal) A person who steals or cheats; swindler or thief
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(Historical) A person declared by a court of law to be deprived of legal rights and protection, generally for the commission of some crime: the killing of such a person was not a legal offense
Hood means a head covering attached to a jacket or shirt.
A person who has been convicted a number of times for violating the law
One of a group of professional criminals, devotees of Kali, who robbed and murdered travelers in northern India until the mid-1800s.
legal (antonym)
The definition of legal is something connected to law or a government’s system of rules.
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lawful (antonym)
In conformity with the principles of the law; permitted by law
police (antonym)
The cleaning of a military base or other military area:
law (antonym)
An impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted for established judicial procedure:
civil (related)
Sufficiently observing or befitting accepted social usages; polite:
Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).
One that performs evil acts.
right (antonym)
In or into a satisfactory state or condition:
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correct (antonym)
Conforming to standards; proper:
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