| criminal | | |
| n. (person) | 1. criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
| ~ accessary, accessory | someone who helps another person commit a crime. |
| ~ arsonist, firebug, incendiary | a criminal who illegally sets fire to property. |
| ~ blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist | a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them. |
| ~ bootlegger, moonshiner | someone who makes or sells illegal liquor. |
| ~ briber, suborner | someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act. |
| ~ coconspirator, conspirator, machinator, plotter | a member of a conspiracy. |
| ~ desperado, desperate criminal | a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier). |
| ~ fugitive from justice, fugitive | someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice. |
| ~ gangster, mobster | a criminal who is a member of gang. |
| ~ highbinder | a corrupt politician. |
| ~ highjacker, hijacker | someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination. |
| ~ hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie, goon, tough | an aggressive and violent young criminal. |
| ~ gaolbird, jail bird, jailbird | a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly. |
| ~ abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher | someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom). |
| ~ mafioso | a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States. |
| ~ gangster's moll, gun moll, moll | the girlfriend of a gangster. |
| ~ liquidator, manslayer, murderer | a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being). |
| ~ principal | (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement. |
| ~ parolee, probationer | someone released on probation or on parole. |
| ~ drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher | an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs. |
| ~ racketeer | someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion). |
| ~ raper, rapist | someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse. |
| ~ habitual criminal, recidivist, repeater | someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior). |
| ~ scofflaw | one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses. |
| ~ contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler | someone who imports or exports without paying duties. |
| ~ stealer, thief | a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it. |
| ~ traitor, treasonist | someone who betrays his country by committing treason. |
| ~ law offender, lawbreaker, violator | someone who violates the law. |
| ~ billie the kid, bonney, william h. bonney | United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881). |
| ~ jesse james, james | United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882). |
| ~ macgregor, rob roy, robert macgregor | Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734). |
| adj. | 2. condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious | 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" |
| ~ wrong | contrary to conscience or morality or law.; "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie" |
| adj. | 3. criminal | guilty of crime or serious offense.; "criminal in the sight of God and man" |
| ~ guilty | responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act.; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds" |
| adj. | 4. criminal, felonious | involving or being or having the nature of a crime.; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" |
| ~ illegal | prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.; "an illegal chess move" |
| felon | | |
| n. (state) | 1. felon, whitlow | a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail. |
| ~ infection | the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms. |
| outlaw | | |
| v. (social) | 1. criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw | declare illegal; outlaw.; "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S." |
| ~ disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, interdict, veto | command against.; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" |
| ~ ban, censor | forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper). |
| adj. | 2. illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful | contrary to or forbidden by law.; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" |
| ~ illegal | prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.; "an illegal chess move" |
| adj. | 3. lawless, outlaw | disobedient to or defiant of law.; "lawless bands roaming the plains" |
| ~ unlawful | contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law.; "unlawful measures"; "unlawful money"; "unlawful hunters" |
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