Synonyms of recidivist

recidivist

noun

as in offender

formal a person who continues to commit crimes even after being caught and punished

Related Words

• offender
• criminal
• lawbreaker
• backslider
• misdemeanant
• accomplice
• culprit
• principal
• jailbird
• miscreant
• crook
• convict
• malefactor
• outlaw
• perpetrator
• desperado
• relapser
• repeater
• sinner
• perp
• trespasser
• transgressor
• wrongdoer
• thug
• villain
• hoodlum
• hooligan
• gangster
• defendant
• racketeer
• mobster
• arrestee
• fish
• evildoer
• suspect
• detainee
• triggerman
• gunsel
• misfeasor
• misdoer
• gallows bird
• gun
• blackhander
• enforcer
• button man
• hit man
• gunman
• accused

Dissimilar Words

• lawman
• gangbuster

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of recidivist

Electronic monitoring and house arrest are heavily weighted as options for certain recidivist offenders. — Greg Norman , Charles Creitz, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025

Gerald Ford, who was President during the peak of the arson wave, publicly mentioned the Bronx just once, to go by the American Presidency Project, and that was to commend Merola’s office for locking up recidivists. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025

Another inspection list recidivist in March, Sang’s is a member of Miami-Dade’s Wretched Restaurant Row, restaurants along 167th Street/163rd Street that have failed inspection, often with an earth’s core deep level of disgusting violations. — David J. Neal updated August 8, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025

Yet this seemingly entirely unnecessary act of recidivist safeguarding was how Tristan da Cunha came to be populated. — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 May 2025