misdemeanant

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Recent Examples of misdemeanant The Northern Neck Regional Jail, where Paul Manafort will spend at least the next three months while awaiting trial, has the outward appearance of being a small local jail holding street thugs and assorted misdemeanants. Tom Jackman, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018 The Northern Neck Regional Jail, where Paul Manafort will spend at least the next three months while awaiting trial, has the outward appearance of being a small local jail holding street thugs and assorted misdemeanants. Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 16 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misdemeanant
Noun
  • The masked trespasser was wearing a black hoodie and black Converse shoes and was carrying a black tote bag.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Metra described the person who was struck as a trespasser.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Preliminary investigation indicated that an unknown offender pulled out a gun and shot into a crowd of people who were standing outside, hitting three of them.
    Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Surprisingly, the worst offenders are often the most traveled.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The scheme is designed to identify suspected criminals, combat identity fraud, and to police the EU's limit on 90-day stays within a 180-day period, according to the European Commission.
    Emma Clarke, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Rex Heuermann, the man known as the Gilgo Beach killer, admitted to killing eight women over a span of decades, and the FBI is now looking into what motivated the 62-year-old to carry out his crimes to help capture other criminals in the future.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Anderson frames his argument largely in relation to the thought of thirteenth-century theologian Thomas Aquinas, who argued that Christians are generally obliged to directly confront someone who is behaving wrongly, and to do it in private to preserve the wrongdoer’s reputation.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 26 Mar. 2026
  • He’s talked tough in news conferences about prosecuting child predators, drug traffickers and assorted wrongdoers.
    Dan Sullivan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In fact, the pointed hoods of nazarenos are inspired by clothes used to shame sinners during the Spanish Inquisition.
    Alexis Marshall, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026
  • In the comments, Ivey argued with fans using Bible verses and accused several of being sinners for their beliefs and lifestyles.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Like a cartoon villain, though, Paula kicks up the edge of the carpet, which causes poor Miriam to make a dog’s dinner of afternoon tea.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Nemesis achieves a lot, introducing a dangerous new villain that even the mighty Asgard fear, while ramping up the tension for a suitably dramatic season finale.
    Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Pinell’s second film after Kiss and Cry, Shana stars her regular collaborator Éva Huault as a woman in her thirties navigating dead-end jobs, drug deals and an impossible relationship with a toxic thug, Moïse.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the religious gestapo thugs who ran the country were not only committed in the name of Allah to destroying Israel, the Little Satan, and the United States, the Big Satan, but western civilization as well.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The first pictures McCullin took were of hoodlums and down-and-outs, subjects that reflected his own hardscrabble background.
    Andrew Pulver, Air Mail, 31 Jan. 2026
  • But as Duterte’s father, Vicente, had increasingly gravitated toward Malacañang, his son hung out with the family bodyguards—and crafted the persona of a rough-talking bugoy, or hoodlum, in his native Bisayan tongue.
    Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

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“Misdemeanant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdemeanant. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.

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