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transgressor

noun as in sinner

noun as in trespasser

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noun as in trespasser

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noun as in wrongdoer

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Its practical incentives include getting the transgressor to admit the wrongdoing himself instead of putting the burden on a classmate to tell.

Lynching’s grotesque aim is only partly punishment, the arrogance of judgment not determined by a court of law against a claimed transgressor.

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Some of the transgressors try to gaslight the audience in their confessionals despite what they’ve recently burned into our eyes and ears.

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When Medina, with his camera in hand, encountered one, the unsuspecting transgressor was fully masked — and brandishing a thundering chainsaw.

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She mimicked the emotions she lacked to fit into a world where novels and films tended to depict sociopaths as violent and soulless transgressors treading the fringes.

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