trespasser

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trespasser
Noun
  • So, people may feel compelled to condemn the wrongdoer to restore a sense of justice.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Thanks to another recent court ruling, the FCC has also had a harder time fining wrongdoers, Quilici explained.
    Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Betty Ann Tomlinson, 50, was charged Thursday afternoon with arson, conspiracy to commit arson and assisting a criminal.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • The thriller follows a professional criminal who, after surviving an assassination attempt, embarks on a relentless quest to identify his would-be killer and protect his family.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • The American project is a patchwork of dreamers and doers, saints and sinners, stitched together by the thread of promise that stretches across generations.
    F. Willis Johnson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
  • Horses and men, dust and earth, saints and sinners.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The suspect was booked into Vista jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, being a felon in possession of firearms and making criminal threats.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2025
  • Molina-Montalvo pleaded guilty on March 28 to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, court records show.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • But a law so significant that the U.S. Supreme Court settled its legality has essentially gathered dust, not lawbreakers.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2025
  • For a sheriff who frequently talks about demanding accountability, Tony’s threat to turn his back on a city of 87,000 residents is exactly the kind of talk lawbreakers want to hear.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Cabot, clearly mortified, turned and hid her face, and Andy Byron sunk out of the frame like the guilty party in a lineup of potential perps.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
  • The perp then sprayed the mother in the face and arm with the irritant as the train approached the Court Square-23rd St. station.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Even the rest of the cast seems confused—most of them don’t believe Angela would invent the scandal, but they’re also not sold on Phaedra’s being the culprit.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 July 2025
  • Poor baserunning has been an issue all season for the Yankees, so Vivas isn't the only culprit.
    Drew VonScio, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • Its victims, malefactors, and investigators are largely without personality, their function being merely to leave or follow trails, and to wear out a reader with anticlimax after anticlimax.
    Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • The sense of purpose that motivated Bush after 9/11, combined with his visceral antipathy to Saddam—who was, after all, one of the great malefactors of the modern age—brought moral clarity, as well as strategic myopia.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
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“Trespasser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trespasser. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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