trespasser

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trespasser
Noun
  • The wrongdoers of today will soon fear his particular brand of Old West Justice!
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
  • The burden of your inquiry into this wrongful closure should rest squarely on the wrongdoer’s shoulders, not on those of the innocent public trying to access their beloved knoll.
    Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • As crypto holders become increasingly savvy online, criminals start resorting to physical attacks.
    Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • According to his campaign website, some of his goals include increasing police presence, protecting undocumented immigrants but deporting violent criminals, taxing the rich, and eliminating waste.
    Emily Chang, ABC News, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The place where Dante cast endless sinners, upside down in hellholes of their own carving, or in the tangled forest of suicides, or with the fratricides in the ninth circle, all of them eternally condemned.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • Everybody loves a reformed sinner, and his first inquisitors, UF trustees, were prepared to grant Ono absolution.
    Ron Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • The suspect was wanted on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon through the ATF in the Northern District of Texas, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Department of Correction.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2025
  • Prosecutors said Gonzalez also was convicted of being a felon in possession of a gun.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Research the London School of Economics (my employer) recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly shows that under certain circumstances, lawbreakers not only go unpunished; they are actively rewarded.
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • This interpretation leads to more support and job opportunities for the lawbreaker.
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Our only response now is to tally up the psycho scoreboard on whose side the perp belongs to?
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025
  • After an exchange of blows and pepper-spray, the trespasser ran off through an emergency exit — but not before sources said the perp stole the supervisor’s keys.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Weak glutes are another culprit, since that causes the hamstrings to take on more work to extend the hips, Dr. Melvan explains.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 26 June 2025
  • According to the National Fire Protection Association, grills are responsible for thousands of home fires each year, and grease is often the culprit.
    JP Shaffer, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This keeps malefactors from abusing the service to snoop on private data other than their own.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Trespasser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trespasser. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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