Synonyms of recidivists

recidivists

noun

plural of recidivist

as in offenders

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

Related Words

• offenders
• criminals
• lawbreakers
• backsliders
• misdemeanants
• culprits
• relapsers
• accomplices
• principals
• convicts
• miscreants
• malefactors
• crooks
• jailbirds
• perpetrators
• repeaters
• outlaws
• desperadoes
• sinners
• wrongdoers
• transgressors
• trespassers
• perps
• villains
• gangsters
• defendants
• thugs
• hoodlums
• hooligans
• racketeers
• mobsters
• guns
• detainees
• arrestees
• fish
• suspects
• evildoers
• triggermen
• misdoers
• misfeasors
• enforcers
• gallows birds
• blackhanders
• button men
• gunsels
• gunmen
• hit men
• accused

Dissimilar Words

• lawmen
• gangbusters

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of recidivists

The plan also calls for going a step further — pushing for legislation at the state level to enable license suspension for serial recidivists. — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026

Within the Moreton Bay area, a penal settlement for colonial recidivists was founded at Brisbane, followed by other penal establishments at Ipswich and on Stradbroke Island. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026

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