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Defenition of the word criminal

    • Defenition of the word criminal

      • A male person that has conducted a criminal act.
      • A female person that has conducted a criminal act.
      • A person that has conducted a criminal act.
      • Being against the law.
      • bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
      • guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man"
      • relating to crime or its punishment; "criminal court"
      • someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
      • involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent"
      • someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
      • guilty of crime or serious offense
      • involving or being or having the nature of a crime
      • bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

    Synonyms for the word criminal

      • condemnable
      • crook
      • deplorable
      • felon
      • felonious
      • malefactor
      • outlaw
      • reprehensible

    Similar words in the criminal

      • guilty
      • illegal
      • wrong

    Hyponyms for the word criminal

      • abductor
      • accessary
      • accessory
      • arsonist
      • Billie the Kid
      • blackmailer
      • Bonney
      • bootlegger
      • briber
      • coconspirator
      • conspirator
      • contrabandist
      • desperado
      • desperate criminal
      • drug dealer
      • drug peddler
      • drug trafficker
      • extortioner
      • extortionist
      • firebug
      • fugitive
      • fugitive from justice
      • gangster
      • gangster's moll
      • gaolbird
      • goon
      • gun moll
      • habitual criminal
      • highbinder
      • highjacker
      • hijacker
      • hood
      • hoodlum
      • incendiary
      • jail bird
      • jailbird
      • James
      • Jesse James
      • kidnaper
      • kidnapper
      • law offender
      • lawbreaker
      • liquidator
      • MacGregor
      • machinator
      • mafioso
      • manslayer
      • mobster
      • moll
      • moon curser
      • moon-curser
      • moonshiner
      • murderer
      • parolee
      • peddler
      • plotter
      • probationer
      • punk
      • pusher
      • racketeer
      • raper
      • rapist
      • recidivist
      • repeater
      • Rob Roy
      • Robert MacGregor
      • runner
      • scofflaw
      • smuggler
      • snatcher
      • stealer
      • strong-armer
      • suborner
      • thief
      • thug
      • tough
      • toughie
      • traitor
      • treasonist
      • violator
      • William H. Bonney

    Hypernyms for the word criminal

      • offender
      • principal
      • wrongdoer

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