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
  • Sterling police officers were called to the Ice Lanes bowling alley late Thursday night when officers contacted a trespasser who was suspected of being where he wasn't supposed to be.
    Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The internet is obsessed with a giant dog trying to show his guarding skills against an unusual trespasser.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Cowley wants to champion policies that attack the root causes of violence while holding offenders accountable, according to her campaign website.
    Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • My key priorities include prosecuting violent offenders, gangs, traffickers, fentanyl dealers, and cartels; supporting local law enforcement; pursuing lawsuits to defend Texas; and aggressively investigating and prosecuting fraud.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Violence is widespread in the city proper, with large encampments where meth and other drugs are readily available and criminals reportedly exploit the city’s free bus system to carry out offenses.
    Michael Ruiz , Adriana James-Rodil, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Godwin is well known in the space, having assisted law enforcement nationwide leading to the removal of hundreds of criminals from the streets.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • For now, his office is limited to civil actions against wrongdoers and passing information to the receiver and state and federal prosecutors.
    CBS News, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • California rightly prides itself on standing up for victims of abuse and holding wrongdoers accountable.
    Jaime Huff, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Serious sinners and penitents began a public penance on the first day of Lent.
    Chris Sims, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Serious sinners and penitents began a public penance on the first day of Lent.
    Chris Sims, IndyStar, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Even the Dodgers, the cartoon villains of spending, kind of sort of have a limit.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • And Salieri seems more of hybrid creature, as though a villain out of Christopher Marlowe had suddenly been endowed with Shakespearean self-awareness.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • And Davis’s integrity puts him at odds with his longtime fence, Money (Nick Nolte, nice and growly as ever), who responds by enlisting the services of Ormon (Barry Keoghan), a platinum-blond thug on a motorcycle.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The last major character is Ormon (Barry Keoghan), the thug hired by Nolte’s Money to terrorize his former protégé, and to make sure that any robbery ends with the money in the correct pocket (his).
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Feb. 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 Feb. 2026.

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