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Lawbreaker

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who breaks the law.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One who breaks (violates) the law, a criminal.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who disobeys the law; someone who violates the law; a criminal.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who breaks or violates the law.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone who violates the law

Word Usage

"The only adverse feeling justifiable toward a lawbreaker is that he is weak or deficient; and it is a sufficient humiliation for him to be considered so, without an accompaniment of aversion or scorn."

Equivalent

law-breaker

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

crook criminal felon malefactor outlaw

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