The Collaborative International Dictionary
lawbreaker \law"break`er\, law-breaker \law"-break`er\, n. One who disobeys the law; someone who violates the law; a criminal.
Syn: violator, lawbreaker, law breaker, perpetrator. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
Usage examples of "law-breaker".
Froebel stepped in and proved himself a law-breaker, just as Ben Lindsey was when he inaugurated the juvenile court and waived the entire established legal procedure, even to the omission of swearing his witnesses, and believed in the little truant even though he lied.
For this is the stronghold of those contrabandistas whom song and legend have praised as the boldest, the merriest, and most romantic of law-breakers.
While Sergeant Dankwaerts, in tones which to a law-breaker would have sounded menacingly level, and consulting from time to time a small black note-book, recited a story studded with 'on the i6th instant's' and 'it came to our knowledge's', Bond made an unconcealed examination of Mr Saye which appeared to perturb Mr Saye no more than the undertones of Sergeant Dankwaerts's recitation.