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convict

noun as in criminal

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Example Sentences

If convicted, Silento could be sentenced to a maximum of six years in prison.

Dongfan “Greg” Chun, the first person convicted under the Economic Espionage Act, is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Raniere has since been convicted on felony sex trafficking, wire fraud, and other charges.

From Fortune

Legal scholar Jennifer Taub tracks how we got here—from post-Enron failure of prosecutorial muscle to the growth of “too big to jail” syndrome—and pose solutions that can help catch and convict offenders.

From Fortune

All 16 involved were convicted, and the ringleaders received death sentences.

From Ozy

A cheerful convict was found dead by his devoted caretaker one morning.

I spent four years in a prison where each handicapped convict was issued an underpaid inmate assistant.

As in most prisons, the “trusty” was a convict the warden trusted and thus had special privileges.

And revolutionary courts often convict and sentence journalists to prison on these baseless charges.

The jury decided that the case was not strong enough to convict.

Weary of the day's routine, I welcome the solitude of the cell, impatient even of the greeting of the passing convict.

While a jury might refuse to convict on circumstantial evidence a detective is not so deterred.

It is hard to forgive an inferior for the wrong which he may convict us with; hence he grew heated as his daughter cooled.

For six long months a court of inquiry sat, but it could not get evidence enough to convict a single man.

At the dinner hour Schiller left my fare to the convict Kunda, who brought me some water, while Schiller stood outside.

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to convict, such as: captive, felon, prisoner, con, culprit, and jailbird.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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