trespassers

noun

plural of trespasser
as in criminals

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trespassers
  1. criminals
  2. offenders
  3. wrongdoers
  4. lawbreakers
  5. sinners
  6. felons
  7. culprits
  8. crooks
Noun
  • That gives criminals several ways to target you, even when your Paidwork balance was nearly empty.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Cyber criminals are using highly convincing counterfeit audio, video, and identity fabrications as tools in ways that conventional detection methods will fail to identify.
    — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of criminals
Noun
  • The current penalty for disclosure violations is $200 for first-time offenders.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 22 July 2026
  • People who flout the ban will be kicked out of stations and multiple offenders could be given a permanent ban from the premises.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
Definition of offenders
Noun
  • 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
  • The overpowering moral authority of wronged women, #MeToo’s skeptics alleged, would allow cynical wrongdoers to weaponize claims of victimhood for their own gain.
    — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 9 June 2026
Definition of wrongdoers
Noun
  • 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
  • Pinecrest police ends the Facebook post warning other neighbors in the area to stay vigilant, and for potential lawbreakers to stay far away.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of lawbreakers
Noun
  • That relationship was based on sinners confessing their sins to this vicar.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • Far too pure for the sinners who run this godless theocracy.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of sinners
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
  • Learn what brown patch is, what other culprits can cause brown patches in a lawn, and how to make those unsightly brown patches in your lawn disappear.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 26 July 2026
  • For almost three months the source of the infection remained a mystery and Americans were warned that fresh fruits, vegetables and greens, which had been culprits in the past, were the most common sources.
    — Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2026
Definition of culprits
Noun
  • Also in his orbit are a consortium of crooks, including his cousin Freddie, a hip junkie, and Pepper, a taciturn hoodlum who was friends with Ray’s dad, Big Mike, a legendary thief.
    — Niela Orr, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • Nonetheless, skeptics seized on the news to warn that airport workers seeking a payoff might collude to cancel a flight, or that crooks could call in fake threats to shut down air travel.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Definition of crooks
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