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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for convicted

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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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Au Kam San, a Macao pro-democracy former lawmaker, was sentenced to 12½ years in prison after a closed-door trial that raised concerns about fairness in the Chinese casino hub's first national security case since the law was enacted in 2009.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
Volarvich and Topete were sentenced to death in 2008 and 2012, respectively.

— Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of sentenced

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Dhillon has drawn fierce criticism from former Justice Department attorneys who have accused her of abandoning the division's traditional civil rights enforcement mission in favor of conservative causes.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
However, the appointment has received flak, as comments James made about the case before she was tapped to lead the investigation have drawn accusations of bias from lawyers of the seven men accused.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of accused

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Black’s lawyers have repeatedly denounced the Oversight Committee’s pursuit of the former head of a private equity firm as an abuse of congressional power.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Band member Hanni Pham nonetheless denounced ADOR for its treatment of her and her bandmates in a 2024 testimony to the Korean Parliament.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of denounced

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Universities have too often punished controversial opinions while tolerating intimidation, obstruction, and exclusion.

— Ilya Shapiro, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
Further south, Broward severely punished the party-switcher who fled the Democratic Party and hoped to survive as a repackaged Republican.

— Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of punished

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Anthropic said Claude can explain unfamiliar financial terms, such as annual percentage rates (APR), and calculate the interest charged across connected accounts.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
The first movie, also written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, charged its way to $57 domestically, becoming the biggest live-action Japanese movie in North America, and $113 million globally.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026

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