lawbreaker

Example Sentences

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But while Grossman’s defense team seized on the plating issue to paint Erickson as a lawbreaker, the lead prosecutor dismissed the revelation as a years-old red herring.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2024

"However, once I return to Korea, I am a lawbreaker."

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2022

“A judge that adjudicates a case does not become a federal lawbreaker unless and until he enters an actual ruling that violates someone’s federally protected rights.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2021

The prosecutors reached far back into Mr. Manafort’s career in their efforts to portray him as a calculating lawbreaker.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2019

This superstition of a continual capricious disorder in nature, of a lawgiver who was also a lawbreaker, made atheists in all directions among clever and lightminded people.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard