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Culprit or lawbreaker
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offender
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who gives or causes offense. 2 A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES first offender habitual criminal/offender/felon etc Persistent offenders (= people who often break the law ) ▪ Persistent offenders face a prison sentence. sex offender young offender COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Offender is a 2012 British action film which follows a hard grafting, 20-year-old working-class man, Tommy Nix, who while avoiding getting mixed up in the wrong crowd sees his girlfriend fall victim to a brutal attack. It stars Kimberley Nixon , Joe Cole ...
Usage examples of offender.
He could not help cursing the impatience of his antagonist, and even hinting that he would have acted more like a gentleman and good Christian, in expressing a desire of seeing the affair accommodated, as he knew himself to be the aggressor, consequently the first offender against the laws of politeness and good-fellowship.
Syrinx overheard a furious affinity conversation with the juvenile offenders.
It may also include investigative recommendations for interrogating or interviewing, identifying, and apprehending the offender.
Persons excluded from the amnesty offered in the said Proclamation may apply to the President for clemency, like all other offenders, and their application will receive due consideration.
We believe he universal assertial of parents would be that, if having taken their child to a hospital for tratment, they learned that it had beenused for experimentation, though no lasting harm could come to it from the experiment, someone would pay the penalty for the unwarranted deed, if money or influence or, these failing, muscle, could reach far enough to find the offender.
Two dorms were for misdemeanants, two for drug offenders, one for violent prisoners.
The two prime offenders here are the overwriting and characterization.
Told to use the service entrance, the offenders argued that they had seen mannequins wearing nothing but panty hose being traipsed through the day before, and no one had seemed to mind.
It surprizes us, and so perhaps, it may the reader, that the lieutenant, a worthy and good man, should have applied his chief care, rather to secure the offender, than to preserve the life of the wounded person.
In certain respects, at least one of the offenders had profiled himself.
Given that the killer left no prints or other obvious clues at the scene, Jud profiled an intelligent offender with a prior record of crimes like burglary and sexual assault.
Case in Point Criminal profiling uses the behavioral characteristics of the offender as its basis.
Eliminate useless investigative paths which historically have proven fruitless in profiling and identifying the offender.
Similarly, profiling of a single murder may indicate that the offender had killed before or would repeat the crime in the future.
Yet there was no ransacking and very little was out of order, which would be inconsistent with an otherwise disorganized offender.