transgressor

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Noun
  • Or even those Californians, such as many in San Francisco and Los Angeles, who are just fed up with the perception that California is soft on criminals.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025
  • The Forgotten Gender Nonconformists of the Old West Livia Gershon April 27, 2018 In the Old West, cross-dressing was sometimes a disguise for criminals on the lam.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • This interpretation leads to more support and job opportunities for the lawbreaker.
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • The threat of agency enforcement action deters potential lawbreakers.
    Mike Calhoun, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • No decent person, let alone a political movement downstream of the biblical, Judeo-Christian tradition, as American conservatism necessarily is, should lift a finger to welcome such a wretched reprobate to our shores or shield him from justice.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Imagine Millennial filmmakers asserting a new neorealism to examine the intimate, fraternal, and familial relations of those infamous Martin, Brown, and Floyd reprobates.
    Armond White, National Review, 19 June 2024
Noun
  • New threats emerge, including a ruthless new villain (Bill Skarsgård) and a blind assassin from Wick’s past, played by Donnie Yen in a standout performance.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 6 June 2025
  • Nicholas Hoult plays the film’s villain, the megalomaniac super-genius Lex Luthor.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Xavier Crump, 28, of Oakland, was charged with forcible oral copulation, second-degree robbery, criminal threats and being a felon in possession of a firearm, court records show.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
  • Carroll was charged with one count each of unlawful possession of a weapon by a repeat felony offender, a class X felony, and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, a class 2 felony.
    Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • In reality, Phil was more interested in calling all of us sinners to forge a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 26 May 2025
  • His tenure was short-lived, however: within a year, he was declared a sinner and imprisoned by another Acholi prophet: Joseph Kony.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • In the early days of the Trump Administration, Kirk’s case was pursued in a rhetorical climate of law and order in which wrongdoers would be held accountable.
    Mike Fox, Oc Register, 12 May 2025
  • Harmonies abound as Elliott and Aaliyah take turns bemoaning the wrongdoer, culminating in a double-time shakedown from Da Brat. 52.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Transgressor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transgressor. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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