The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misdemeanant
Misdemeanant \Mis`de*mean"ant\, n.
One guilty of a misdemeanor.
--Sydney Smith.
Wiktionary
misdemeanant
n. One who commits misdemeanors
Usage examples of "misdemeanant".
He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory.
But as for that the two misdemeanants, wrapped up as they largely were in one another, could safely afford to ignore it as they very largely did till the matter was put in the hands of a solicitor who filed a petition for the party wronged in due course.
Two dorms were for misdemeanants, two for drug offenders, one for violent prisoners.