CRIMINALS Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

criminals

noun

plural of criminal

as in offenders

a person who has committed a crime car thieves, pickpockets, burglars, and other criminals

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Recent Examples of criminals That gives criminals several ways to target you, even when your Paidwork balance was nearly empty. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Cyber criminals are using highly convincing counterfeit audio, video, and identity fabrications as tools in ways that conventional detection methods will fail to identify. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 While no cast members actually broke the law during the show’s production, both Starkey and Taylor-Joy star alongside Annette Bening as criminals with a familial connection in Lucky. — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026 The detective-heroines (and especially the actress-detectives) in this canon are careful about how performance might be extended to social duplicity, dishonesty, and fraud—but the lady criminals of Victorian detective fiction cross this line easily. — Literary Hub, 24 July 2026 From 1873 to 1991, the island served as Costa Rica’s principal penitentiary, where some of the country’s worst criminals were sent to serve often short and torturous sentences. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 24 July 2026 His question insinuates that Mano Majra’s Muslims had been sheltering criminals. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026 The Mexican government extradited or transferred more than 100 alleged criminals to the United States from February 2025 to January 2026—many times the previous flow. — Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 Hawley listed criminals convicted of heinous crimes and questioned her judgment for recommending clemency. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026

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offenders

Noun

Sehnaoui's meeting with the Israeli leader occurred as some in Lebanon have called for abolishing a 1955 law that bans dealing with Israel or having contacts with Israelis and punishes offenders with up to 10 years in jail.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
The current penalty for disclosure violations is $200 for first-time offenders.

— Justin Papp, CNBC, 22 July 2026