career criminal

noun

: a person who has committed many crimes throughout his or her life

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Diller gave his life trying to make the streets of NYC safer, and this career criminal — who shouldn’t have been on the streets with a gun — is acquitted of murder. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2026 Epstein, a career criminal and con artist, saw weakness in the rich and powerful and exploited it, and his emails are an incredible map of elites, and of their wealth and power. Ben Smith, semafor.com, 23 Feb. 2026 Chaney, as a repeat offender, also faces a sentencing enhancement of level-two armed career criminal. Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025 Channing Tatum stars as Jeff Manchester, aka the Roofman, a well-meaning but savant-like career criminal who robbed upwards of 45 McDonald’s locations in the late 1990s by tearing holes in the roofs. Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for career criminal

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“Career criminal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/career%20criminal. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.

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