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offender

noun as in perpetrator

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At 1:42 a.m., a commenter bluntly asked: “Jeff, Is it true you are a convicted sex offender?”

To most of the world, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted sex offender and a financial grifter.

They are both complicit in this, though my mother is the more egregious offender.

His sex-offender pedigree was real, though; Australian police have those certificates.

Could Dr. Huxtable spend his last years in jail as a sex offender?

He couldn't land without being dropped upon: the man was no common offender, and we've kept our eyes open.

The philosophic Determinist would denounce the offender's conduct, but would not denounce the offender.

It visited an offence with a penalty of which the offender, at the time when he offended, had no notice.

Andrea stooped out toward the offender and bade him begone in an imperious voice.

The statute of that year provided that every offender should forfeit the sum of twelve pence.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to offender, such as: convict, criminal, culprit, delinquent, felon, and lawbreaker.

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

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