WordNet
n. someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) [syn: recidivist, repeater]
Usage examples of "habitual criminal".
There were other things: Ker was a habitual criminal who had taken employment on Earth one jump ahead of arrest, and Terl had fixed up a name change.
He was, in fact, a hardened and habitual criminal, Cohn decided, a hopeless case.
The madness of a rabid animal, then, in combination with the warped cunning of an habitual criminal.
He had been arrested and convicted for a total of 2,342 felonies, just one short of the 2,343 felonies which, on Gtet, make one a habitual criminal and, therefore, subject to life imprisonment.
He had been arrested and convicted for a total of 2,342 felonies, just one short of the 2,343 felonies which, on Gtet, make one a habitual criminal and, there.
By the time you are actually put behind bars, you have to be a habitual criminal, a REAL BAD GUY!
He's been in trouble all over the South, what they call a 'little habitch' as opposed to a 'big habitch'-habitual criminal.
Earth, it's rumored, she was a criminal, a registered habitual criminal.
Stevens was a habitual criminal, a street dealer well connected with a great lawyer.
Too much of one gland, too little of another - and you get your murderer, your thief, your habitual criminal.
Too much of one gland, too little of another and you get your murderer, your thief, your habitual criminal.