Synonyms of wrongdoers

wrongdoers

noun

plural of wrongdoer

as in criminals

a person who commits moral wrongs

anticorruption crusaders are going after wrongdoers at every level of the nation's government

Synonyms & Similar Words

• criminals
• offenders
• sinners
• villains
• evildoers
• malefactors
• corrupters
• transgressors
• immoralists
• lawbreakers
• felons
• reprobates
• crooks
• miscreants
• misdoers
• misfeasors

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• saints
• angels
• innocents

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wrongdoers

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

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

Greylord was a watershed moment in its use of eavesdropping devices and a mole to obtain evidence instead of relying on wrongdoers to become government informants. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026

And when thunderclaps rattled their chests, the Chinese felt a deity punishing wrongdoers. — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026

But critics of this effort say this internal mechanism fails to provide meaningful accountability and would protect wrongdoers from any future state bar investigation. — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 25 Apr. 2026

He’s talked tough in news conferences about prosecuting child predators, drug traffickers and assorted wrongdoers. — Dan Sullivan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026

For now, his office is limited to civil actions against wrongdoers and passing information to the receiver and state and federal prosecutors. — CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026