Thesaurus / criminals
other words for criminals
MOST RELEVANT
- convict
- crook
- culprit
- felon
- fugitive
- gangster
- hoodlum
- hooligan
- lawbreaker
- mobster
- offender
- thug
- blackmailer
- con
- delinquent
- desperado
- deuce
- evildoer
- guerilla
- heavy
- hood
- hustler
- jailbird
- malefactor
- mug
- muscle
- outlaw
- racketeer
- repeater
- scofflaw
- sinner
- transgressor
- trespasser
- wrongdoer
- yardbird
- bad actor
- black marketeer
- ex-con
- inside person
- slippery eel
See also synonyms for: criminal
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This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
They have managed to do this by great efforts, and that with the criminals free, and with the power of the governor.
All the criminals go about and take their pleasure, thus occasioning much reproach.
It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals, and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use.
OLIVER TWIST, VOL. II (OF 3)CHARLES DICKENS
No, there was nothing to worry about as long as that relentless hunter of criminals known as the Black Hood kept off their tail.
He had approached Joseph with the idea of learning something about the escaping criminals.
Black Hood knew that the criminals had taken the road toward town.
The gray sedan in which the fleeing criminals were riding had vanished, apparently into thin air.
One is reproduced here, chiefly with the object of showing the pleasing roadside humour of hanging criminals in chains.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPER
He has established a perfect underground railway for transporting these criminals from one place to another in secret.
WORDS RELATED TO CRIMINALS
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.