Malefactor

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  • noun. One who has committed a crime; a criminal.
  • noun. A wrongdoer or evildoer.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who does evil or injury to another: opposed to benefactor.
  • noun. A heinous evil-doer; a law-breaker; a criminal or felon.
  • noun. Synonyms Evil-doer, culprit, felon, convict.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
  • noun. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. Opposite of benefactor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A criminal or felon.
  • noun. An evildoer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
  • Word Usage
    "Dead in law, as a condemned malefactor is called a dead man because he is under a sentence of death; so sinners by the guilt of sin are under the sentence of the law and condemned already, John iii."
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