CONVICTED Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in condemned

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verb

past tense of convict

as in sentenced

to find or pronounce guilty an accused person is presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law

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Moore was convicted in 2013 in an unrelated incident of inappropriately touching a 16-year-old boy. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026 Cunha was convicted of arson in 2016 after pleading guilty to setting at least 30 fires in rural areas east of Sacramento during 2006 and 2007, causing $7 million in damage, The Sacramento Bee reported at the time. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026 Jacobs was convicted of the battery charge in September and spent six games on the commissioner’s exempt list this season. — Armando Salguero , Ryan Morik Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026 Vallow Daybell was convicted separately in Arizona for conspiring to murder her estranged husband and her niece’s ex-husband, the latter of whom survived. — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026 Kewon White, the gunman in the case, was convicted last month and sentenced to life in prison. — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026 He’d previously been convicted in 1976 for the kidnapping and assault of 18-year-old Carol DaRonch before escaping — twice. — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2026 Violetta Mailyan, 45, was convicted of nine counts of wire fraud and three counts of obstruction of an investigation of a healthcare offense. — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026 Last month, Ratko Mladić, a Bosnian Serb commander convicted of crimes against humanity during the Yugoslav wars, was given a funeral with military honors in Belgrade. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026

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Jim Trusty, the lawyer for Rozier, excoriated the league after a hearing Wednesday that served as a status update on Rozier’s case, as well as the other three defendants who remain indicted alongside him.

— Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 11 June 2026
The conservative-leaning New York Post has also reported Wahhaj was listed as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

— Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025

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Some people condemned the work for outing Foucault as a fellow AIDS sufferer.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2026
One story involves an innocent coal miner, condemned to death in 1877, who left a handprint in his cell at the Carbon County Jail that no amount of sanding or paint has been able to erase.

— Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of condemned

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Holmes was convicted on four counts and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 Oct. 2026
Liannys Yaiselys Vega-Perez, 27, who managed the immigration services business and admitted personally filing hundreds of fraudulent asylum applications, was sentenced to four years in prison.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of sentenced

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Lopes is one of seven former Chi Phi fraternity brothers who are accused in a lawsuit of drugging and raping a female Cornell student at their fraternity house in October 2024.

— Kelsie Cairns , Maria Paronich, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
The trial is expected to start Thursday for a man accused of fatally running over his girlfriend, a junior in high school, in Burlington in 2023 during a night allegedly involving underage drinking and a violent argument.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of accused

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That threat from the hyperbolic president, denounced by legal scholars, has nonetheless gained credence in recent days, as federal prosecutors have issued their grand jury subpoenas to election officials.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Soon after stepping in, Bishop tried to subpoena personal information for thousands of Fulton County poll workers, a move the county and election experts denounced as politically motivated intimidation.

— Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of denounced

Verb

Cam Skattebo was surprisingly punished for his fumbling issues, but there is precedence in John Harbaugh’s coaching history.

— Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
Settler violence has surged in recent years, and rights groups say that attackers are rarely arrested or punished for attacks on Palestinians.

— Koral Saeed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of punished

Verb

King’s trial, on an indictment in which the sheriff was charged with corrupt influence retaliation, unfolded over about two and a half weeks.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2026
Orange County prosecutors also charged Nguyen with animal cruelty and animal abuse by a caretaker, both felonies, and a sentencing enhancement alleging the personal use of a weapon.

— Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026

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