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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ex-con
noun
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▪ At last all seems to be coming together for the ex-con who wants to go straight.
▪ Horror stories are rife of ex-cons setting up their own security companies, with all the obvious risks that entails.
▪ The disclosures have led to firings, assaults and other forms of harassment against the parolees and ex-cons.
Wiktionary
ex-con

alt. A former prisoner. n. A former prisoner.

Usage examples of "ex-con".

As Kerrie and be hustled from the car and up the front walk, Roman prayed he was wrong about Loverboy--that Bud Grimes had been killed by a revenge-seeking ex-con.

A small group of onlookers, gawking and talking in whispers, hovered on the edges of the rain-soaked yd. As Kerrie and be hustled from the car and up the front walk, Roman prayed he was wrong about Loverboy--that Bud Grimes had been killed by a revenge-seeking ex-con.

Sally had promised herself she'd try to be demure, so she went to the sofa, sat down and changed the subject by asking, "About that ex-con, the Brinks guard?

There were young couples, retirees, pretty young women, middle-aged women in stretch pants and cardigans, leatherfaced cowboys fresh from the range and soft-faced rich men on junkets from far cities, secretaries, truckers, executives, doctors, ex-cons and off-duty cops, hustlers and dreamers, escapees from every social background, drawn together by the hope and thrill of organized games of chance, surely the most democratizing industry on earth.

Apparently, there was something crudely funny about beauty queens and ex-cons.

They know the lingo of the domestic relations court as well as ex-cons know their criminal law.

Next to them are the other ex-cons who belong to the recently-formed organization.

The thin voices of the girls of the sixties join with the garbled grunts of the ex-cons, ex-junkies and present revolutionaries to sing President Eisenhower's favorite hymn.

Of the four people around him -- all in their late twenties -- two were ex-cons, two were part-time dynamite freaks and known fire-bombers, and three of the four were veteran acid-eaters.

Get there too soon, we could end up with Perchorsk's caretakers, that gang of ex-cons, up in arms.

The woman's got a live-in boyfriend, in this case, as everyone seemed to know, an ex-con.

The paparazzi would have a field day with this—heiress Kezia Saint Martin dashing through airport, knocking people down, for a kiss from ex-con agitator Lucas Johns.

They were clones of the pair who had stopped him at the front of the property: hard-muscled wise guys, ex-cons, most likely, with cynical eyes and quick reflexes, made for guard duty.