MISDEMEANANT Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

misdemeanant

noun

Definition of misdemeanant

as in trespasser

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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

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Noun

The reports began last August, with a report of a daytime trespasser, who wasn’t located.

— Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
In ruling on the motion, Pasco County Circuit Court Judge Joshua Riba acknowledged Garrett was a trespasser.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026

Definition of trespasser

Noun

First-time targeting offenders do not receive any additional sanctions.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2026
Most of the offenders, too, appear to be delis and bodegas and fast-casual food carts, venues where quality is secondary to moving product quickly and cheaply out the door.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of offender

Noun

Most crimes across Mexico went unsolved, and authorities sometimes appeared to be colluding with criminals instead of fighting them.

— Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Keeping email, downloads and everyday web activity away from that machine reduces the opportunities criminals have to reach it.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of criminal

Noun

The Native community had its own ways of punishing wrongdoers, but Stevens’ role was to protect her client’s constitutional rights.

— Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2026
New York’s Bivens Act remedies this by extending the protections of Section 1983 to all individual government wrongdoers — including federal ones.

— Joel B. Rudin, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026

Definition of wrongdoer

Noun

There are no villains in Possible Love; there are only people who are aware of others, and people who are not.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2026
The former Democratic speaker was the longtime villain, a mainstay in ads as Republicans linked Democratic candidates to her to paint them as radical and out of touch.

— James A. Downs, The Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of villain

Noun

That a Christian man was responsible for the devastation in Oklahoma City certainly didn’t matter to the thugs who terrorized a Muslim woman there, nearly seven months pregnant, by attacking her home, breaking her windows, screaming religious slurs.

— Reshma Memon Yaqub, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
On a cold night in November 2011, in a field outside Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, a gang of thugs stormed a Soviet scientific research institute, beat and humiliated the staff and burned the place to the ground.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

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