transgressor
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
When Medina, with his camera in hand, encountered one, the unsuspecting transgressor was fully masked — and brandishing a thundering chainsaw.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024
Unified as one transgressor, probably one among many.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2024
Contrary to prevalent wisdom that ingroup members always judge other ingroup members more favorably than outgroup members, they found that people made harsher moral judgments against the ingroup transgressor.
From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2023
“The curse inscribed on a statue of a High Priest of Amun says any transgressor will ‘die from hunger and thirst.’”
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
