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n. One that offends, especially one that breaks a public law: a corrections institution for youthful offenders.

n. One who gives or causes offense.

n. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

n. One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.

n. One who offends; one who transgresses or violates a law, whether human or divine; one who infringes rules and regulations; one who acts contrary to the rights of others, or to social rule or custom; one who displeases or annoys; one who gives offense, or incurs the dislike or resentment of another.

n. Synonyms Offender, Delinquent, culprit. Offender differs from delinquent in that a delinquent is, strictly, a negative transgressor, one who neglects to comply with the requirements of the law, whereas an offender is a positive transgressor, one who violates law or social rule. Both are general words, covering the offenses or delinquencies under divine or human laws, social usages, etc.

n. a person who transgresses moral or civil law

"City drivers, especially those of us who hail from the North, will continue to drive and beep the horn wildly and angrily gesture, whether the offender is an elected official or not."

bad person   

panderer    convict    supplanter    gonif    evildoer    reversionist    pettifogger    delinquent    principal    deserter   

juvenile offender    repeat offender   

wrongdoer    transgressor    sinner    criminal   

Blender    Fender    Spender    bender    blender    contender    defender    ender    engender    fender   

murderer    criminal    offenses    offence    crime    killer    prisoner    sinner    suspect    abuse