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Incendiary sinner
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arsonist
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A fortnight ago arsonists got inside the building and started a fire. ▪ Although suspects in many of the other church fires have been arrested and prosecuted, the Salem arsonists remain at large. ▪ First he began to shy away ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a criminal who illegally sets fire to property [syn: incendiary , firebug ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1864, from arson + -ist .
Usage examples of arsonist.
A true copyhuman would have taken more time to study the technique and patterning of the original arsonist and made a more sincere attempt to replicate the crime exactly.
Are the DDC investors aware that Gilpin County has an arsonist on the loose?
Sometimes an arsonist made a living by burning and collecting insurance.
The arsonist was supposed to confirm that everything listed was on the premises before he set the fire.
As an expert at setting fires, who believed in keeping jobs as simple as possible, the arsonist had identified two rooms at opposite ends of the building as the best places to start a comprehensive blaze.
The arsonist could see the names of some of the documents that he had been sent to destroy openly displayed on the binders and filing boxes in the ground-floor offices.
The clients had seemed to be holding back on the matter of the documents, as if reluctant to stress their importance in case the arsonist helped himself to some of them instead of burning them.
It was a mid-week night, Wednesday, and quiet in his vicinity as the arsonist set to work on solid putty using a chisel.
The arsonist felt comfortable about being in the yard, knowing that the chances of interruption were tiny and, if he was disturbed, that his chances of running for it, and getting cleanly away, were excellent.
The arsonist propped the detached pane against the wall carefully, well out of his way, and reached into the first tackle bag.
Paying off the arsonist was not a problem - they had untraceable cash in abundance at their disposal and they had taken great care not to leave themselves open to identification by their pyrophilic agent.
The Vances were confident that it would prove a complete waste of time without information from the arsonist, but it would serve to surround Philip Hallan with suspicion.
Peter Vance favoured keeping the arsonist available in case they needed him again.
Killing the arsonist was both heavy-handed and bound to attract further police attention.
In the end, five minutes before the arsonist was due to arrive at their rendezvous for his final pay-off, the Vances reached a compromise.