TRANSGRESSORS Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

transgressors

noun

plural of transgressor

as in offenders

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Noun

Second-time offenders will be forced to miss a half in the ensuing game.

— 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 offenders

Noun

Operating system and browser updates regularly fix vulnerabilities that criminals may try to exploit.

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

Definition of criminals

Noun

The lawbreakers were gathered this day on a cliff and a nearby arch, a crowd of around 50 young people — 14- to 20-year-olds, mostly males.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Rollins is running for a job in justice, ostensibly to uphold the law and hold lawbreakers accountable.

— Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 10 Apr. 2026

Definition of lawbreakers

Noun

Youngkin moved to require felons released from prison to apply individually for the restoration of their voting rights, rather than having the administration automatically grant them.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026
Jurors convicted the pair of being felons in possession of a firearm and found true allegations of prior felony convictions.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026

Definition of felons

Noun

Unlike Vegas with its cast of reprobates and wackos, this joint is classy and clean and just a wee bit indulgent.

— David Weiss, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
They’re typically retired, sitting on pensions and 401(k)s, and may be naive to the techniques favored by con artists and reprobates who run riot on the internet.

— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Sep. 2025

Definition of reprobates

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 wrongdoers

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