#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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