#wrongdoer__offender  a person who transgresses moral or civil law
  supertype:  #bad_person__badperson  a person who does harm to others
  subtype:  #abuser__maltreater  someone who abuses
  subtype:  #attacker__aggressor__assailant__assaulter  someone who attacks
     subtype:  #ambusher  an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack
     subtype:  #avenger__retaliator  someone who takes vengeance
     subtype:  #beast__wolf__savage__brute__wildcat  a cruelly rapacious person
     subtype:  #bully__tough__hooligan__ruffian__roughneck__rowdy__yob__yobo__yobbo  a cruel and brutal fellow
        subtype:  #bullyboy  a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction
        subtype:  #muscleman  a bully employed by a gangster
        subtype:  #skinhead  a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations
        subtype:  #tough_guy__toughguy__plug-ugly  someone who bullies weaker people
           subtype:  #Ted__Teddy_boy  (Brit) a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes
     subtype:  #harasser__harrier  a persistent attacker; "the harassers were not members of the regular army"
     subtype:  #marauder__predator__vulture  someone who attacks in search of booty
     subtype:  #night_rider__nightrider__nightrider  member of a secret mounted band in United States south after the Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge
     subtype:  #raper__rapist  someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
     subtype:  #shedder__spiller  an attacker who sheds or spills blood; "a great hunter and spiller of blood"
     subtype:  #stabber  someone who stabs another person
     subtype:  #stoner__lapidator  an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill)
  subtype:  #convict  a person convicted of a criminal offence
     subtype:  #first_offender__firstoffender  someone convicted for the first time
  subtype:  #criminal__felon__crook__outlaw__malefactor  someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
     subtype:  #accessory__accessary  someone who helps another person commit a crime
        subtype:  #abettor__abetter  one who helps or encourages or incites another
        subtype:  #accessory_after_the_fact__accessoryafterthefact  a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony
        subtype:  #accessory_before_the_fact  a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration
        subtype:  #accessory_during_the_fact  a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent it
        subtype:  #confederate__collaborator__henchman__partner_in_crime  someone who assists in a plot
     subtype:  #arsonist__incendiary__firebug  a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
        subtype:  #barnburner  someone who burns down a barn
     subtype:  #blackmailer__extortioner__extortionist  a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
     subtype:  #bootlegger__moonshiner  someone who makes or sells illegal liquor
     subtype:  #briber__suborner  someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act
     subtype:  #conspirator__plotter  a member of a conspiracy
        instance:  #Guy_Fawkes__Fawkes  #Titus_Oates__Oates
     subtype:  #desperado__desperate_criminal__desperatecriminal  a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
     subtype:  #fugitive_from_justice__fugitive  someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
        subtype:  #absconder  someone who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
        subtype:  #escapee  someone who escapes
     subtype:  #gangster__mobster  a criminal who is a member of gang
        subtype:  #apache  a Parisian gangster
        subtype:  #yardie  member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence; "A much publicized raid on a yardie stronghold had first been simulated at Riot City"
        instance:  #Alphonse_Capone__Capone__Al_Capone__Scarface
     subtype:  #highbinder  a corrupt politician
     subtype:  #highjacker__hijacker  someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination
     subtype:  #hoodlum__hood__goon__punk__thug__tough__toughie__strong-armer  an aggressive and violent young criminal
     subtype:  #kidnapper__abductor__snatcher  someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
        subtype:  #crimper  someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
        subtype:  #shanghaier__seizer  a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship
     subtype:  #gangster's_moll__moll__gun_moll__gunmoll  the girl friend of a gangster
     subtype:  #murderer__liquidator__manslayer  a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
        subtype:  #assassin__assassinator__bravo  a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors"
           instance:  #John_Wilkes_Booth__Booth  #Lee_Harvey_Oswald__Oswald
        subtype:  #butcher  a brutal indiscriminate murderer
        subtype:  #cutthroat  someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
        subtype:  #fratricide.murderer  a person who murders their brother or sister
        subtype:  #gunslinger__gunman__hired_gun__hiredgun__gun__triggerman__hit_man__hitman__torpedo__shooter  a professional killer who uses a gun
        subtype:  #hatchet_man__hatchetman__iceman  a professional killer
        subtype:  #infanticide.murderer  a person who murders an infant
        subtype:  #murderess__murderes  a woman murderer
        subtype:  #parricide.murderer  someone who kills his or her parent
           subtype:  #matricide.parricide  a person who murders their mother
           subtype:  #patricide.parricide  a person who murders their father
        subtype:  #ripper  a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the ripper was probably a madman"
        subtype:  #serial_killer__serial_murderer  someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
        instance:  #Jack_the_Ripper
     subtype:  #parolee__probationer  someone released on probation or on parole
     subtype:  #drug_peddler__pusher__peddler__drug_dealer__drug_trafficker  an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
     subtype:  #racketeer  some who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)
        subtype:  #bagman  a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money
     subtype:  #raper__rapist  someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
     subtype:  #recidivist__repeater__habitual_criminal  someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
     subtype:  #scofflaw  one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses
     subtype:  #smuggler__runner__contrabandist__mooncurser  someone who imports or exports without paying duties
        subtype:  #gunrunner__arms-runner  a smuggler of guns
        subtype:  #rumrunner  someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border
     subtype:  #thief__stealer  a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
        subtype:  #bandit__brigand  an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
        subtype:  #shoplifter__booster__lifter  a thief who steals goods that are on display in a store
        subtype:  #burglar  a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
           subtype:  #housebreaker__cat_burglar  a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house
        subtype:  #dacoit__dakoit  (in India and Burma) a member of an armed gang of robbers
        subtype:  #embezzler__peculator__defalcator  someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for their own use
        subtype:  #body_snatcher__graverobber__ghoul  someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
        subtype:  #graverobber  someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts
        subtype:  #holdup_man__stickup_man__stickupman  an armed thief
           subtype:  #highwayman__highjacker__hijacker__road_agent  a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
              subtype:  #footpad__padder  a highwayman who robs on foot
              instance:  #Dick_Turpin__Turpin
        subtype:  #larcenist__larcener  a person who commits larceny
        subtype:  #pickpocket__cutpurse__dip  a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
        subtype:  #plagiarist__plagiarizer__literarypirate__pirate  someone who uses another person's words or ideas is they were his own
        subtype:  #plunderer__pillager__looter__spoiler__raider__freebooter  someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
           subtype:  #pirate__buccaneer__sea_robber__searobber__sea_rover__searover  someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
              subtype:  #Barbary_pirate__corsair  a pirate along the Barbary coast
                 instance:  #Khayr_ad-Din__Barbarossa
              subtype:  #sea_king__seaking  a Viking pirate chief
              instance:  #Jean_Laffite__Laffite__Lafitte__Jean_Lafitte  #Sir_Henry_Morgan__Morgan__Henry_Morgan  #Bartholomew_Roberts__Roberts  #Edward_Teach__Teach__Thatch__Edward_Thatch__Blackbeard
        subtype:  #robber  a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence
           subtype:  #bank_robber  a robber of banks
           subtype:  #mugger  a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)
        subtype:  #rustler__cattle_thief  someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)
        subtype:  #safebreaker__safecracker__cracksman  a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents
        subtype:  #snatcher  a thief who grabs and runs; "a purse snatcher"
        subtype:  #sneak_thief__pilferer__snitcher  a thief who steals without using violence
           subtype:  #wharf_rat.sneak_thief__wharfrat  someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses
     subtype:  #traitor__treasonist  someone who betrays his country by committing treason
        subtype:  #collaborator__collaborationist__quisling  someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
        subtype:  #fifth_columnist__fifthcolumnist__saboteur  a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
        subtype:  #traitress__traitres  female traitor
        instance:  #Benedict_Arnold__Arnold
     subtype:  #violator__lawbreaker  someone who violates the law
     instance:  #William_H._Bonney__Bonney__Billie_the_Kid  #Jesse_James__James  #Robert_MacGregor__MacGregor__Rob_Roy
  subtype:  #deceiver__cheat__cheater__trickster__beguiler__slicker  someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
     subtype:  #bluffer  a person who tries to bluff other people
     subtype:  #swindler__chiseller__chiseler__gouger__scammer__sharpie  a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
        subtype:  #cardsharp__cardsharper  a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
        subtype:  #clip_artist  a swindler who fleeces the victim
        subtype:  #confidence_man__con_man__conman__con_artist__conartist  a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim
        subtype:  #welcher__welsher  someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager
     subtype:  #steerer__decoy  a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
        subtype:  #roper.steerer  a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
        subtype:  #shill  a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
     subtype:  #dodger__fox__slyboot  a shifty deceptive person
     subtype:  #double-crosser__double-dealer__two-timer__twotimer__betrayer__traitor  a person who says one thing and does another
        subtype:  #Judas  someone who betrays under the guise of friendship
     subtype:  #falsifier  someone who falsifies
     subtype:  #finagler__wangler  a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods
     subtype:  #counterfeiter__forger  someone who makes copies illegally
        subtype:  #coiner.counterfeiter  (British) a maker of counterfeit coins
        subtype:  #paperhanger  (informal) someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money
     subtype:  #fortune_hunter__fortunehunter  a person who seeks wealth through marriage
     subtype:  #front_man__frontman__front__figurehead__nominal_head__nominalhead__straw_man__strawman  a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
     subtype:  #hypocrite__dissembler__phony__phoney__pretender  a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold
        subtype:  #smoothie__smoothy__sweettalker  someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
        subtype:  #Tartuffe__Tartufe  a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
        subtype:  #whited_sepulcher__whited_sepulchre  a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
     subtype:  #impersonator__imitator  someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another
        subtype:  #mimic__mimicker  someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
     subtype:  #imposter__impostor__pretender__fake__faker__fraud__sham__shammer__pseudo__pseud__role_player  a person who makes deceitful pretenses
        subtype:  #namedropper  someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends
        subtype:  #ringer.imposter  a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
     subtype:  #liar__prevaricator  a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
        subtype:  #perjurer__false_witness__falsewitnes  a person who deliberately gives false testimony
        subtype:  #storyteller__fibber__fabricator  someone who tells lies
        instance:  #Ananias
     subtype:  #misleader  someone who leads astray (often deliberately)
     subtype:  #mountebank__charlatan  a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
        subtype:  #phrenologist__craniologist  someone who claims to read your character from the shape of your skull
        subtype:  #quack  an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
     subtype:  #obscurantist  a person who is deliberately vague
     subtype:  #sandbagger  someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you
     subtype:  #two-timer__twotimer  someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else
     subtype:  #utterer  someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins
  subtype:  #juvenile_delinquent__delinquent  a young offender
  subtype:  #defector__deserter  a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)
     subtype:  #deviationist  an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism)
     subtype:  #draft_dodger__draftdodger__draft_evader__draftevader  someone who is drafted and illegally refuses to serve
     subtype:  #renegade__turncoat  someone who rebels and becomes and outlaw
  subtype:  #transgressor  someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command; "the way of transgressors is hard"
  subtype:  #malfeasant  one guilty of malfeasance
  subtype:  #nonattender__no-show__truant  someone who shirks duty
  subtype:  #perpetrator__culprit  someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
  subtype:  #pimp__procurer__panderer__pander__pandar__fancy_man__fancyman__ponce  someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
     subtype:  #procuress__procures  a woman pimp
     subtype:  #whoremaster__whoremonger  a pimp who procures whores
  subtype:  #backslider__recidivist__reversionist  someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
  subtype:  #reprobate__miscreant  a person without moral scruples
     subtype:  #pervert__deviant__deviate__degenerate  a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
        subtype:  #fetishist  one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature)
        subtype:  #masochist  someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment
           subtype:  #flagellant.masochist  a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification
        subtype:  #molester  someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities
        subtype:  #nymphomaniac__nympho  a woman with abnormal sexual desires
        subtype:  #pederast__paederast__childmolester  a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner
        subtype:  #pedophile__paedophile  an adult who is sexually attracted to children
        subtype:  #sadist  someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others
        subtype:  #sadomasochist  someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism
        subtype:  #satyr__lecher  man with strong sexual desires
        subtype:  #sodomite__sodomist__sod  someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
     subtype:  #scapegrace__black_sheep__blacksheep  a reckless and unprincipled reprobate
     subtype:  #wretch  performs some wicked deed
  subtype:  #shark.wrongdoer  a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
  subtype:  #shyster__pettifogger  a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
  subtype:  #sinner__evildoer  a person who sins (without repenting)
     subtype:  #magdalen  a reformed prostitute
     instance:  #St_Mary_Magdalene__Mary_Magdalene__Mary_Magdalen__St_Mary_Magdalen
  subtype:  #usurper__supplanter  one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
     subtype:  #claim_jumper__claimjumper  one who illegally occupies property to which another has a legal claim
  subtype:  #war_criminal__warcriminal  an offender who violates international law during times of war

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