criminal (n)
felon (n)
crook (n)
outlaw (n)
malefactor (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 18
def someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
Outgoing links
Hypernym principal
Derivationally related form outlaw → outlaw(a)
Derivationally related form outlaw → outlaw(a)
Derivationally related form outlaw → outlaw
Derivationally related form criminal → criminalize
Hyponym accessory, accessary; arsonist, incendiary, firebug; blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist; bootlegger, moonshiner; briber, suborner; conspirator, coconspirator, plotter, machinator; desperado, desperate criminal; fugitive, fugitive from justice; gangster, mobster; highbinder; highjacker, hijacker; hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer; jail bird, jailbird, gaolbird; kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher; mafioso; moll, gun moll, gangster's moll; murderer, liquidator, manslayer; probationer, parolee; pusher, drug peddler, peddler, drug dealer, drug trafficker; racketeer; raper, rapist; recidivist, repeater, habitual criminal; scofflaw; smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser; thief, stealer; traitor, treasonist; violator, lawbreaker, law offender
Instance Hyponym Bonney, William H. Bonney, Billie the Kid; James, Jesse James; MacGregor, Robert MacGregor, Rob Roy
Incoming links
Derivationally related form outlaw(a) → outlaw
Derivationally related form outlaw(a) → outlaw
Hypernym accessory, accessary; arsonist, incendiary, firebug; blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist; bootlegger, moonshiner; briber, suborner; conspirator, coconspirator, plotter, machinator; desperado, desperate criminal; fugitive, fugitive from justice; gangster, mobster; highbinder; highjacker, hijacker; hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer; jail bird, jailbird, gaolbird; kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher; mafioso; moll, gun moll, gangster's moll; murderer, liquidator, manslayer; probationer, parolee; pusher, drug peddler, peddler, drug dealer, drug trafficker; racketeer; raper, rapist; recidivist, repeater, habitual criminal; scofflaw; smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser; thief, stealer; traitor, treasonist; violator, lawbreaker, law offender
Hyponym principal
Instance Hypernym Bonney, William H. Bonney, Billie the Kid; James, Jesse James; MacGregor, Robert MacGregor, Rob Roy
Derivationally related form outlaw → outlaw
Derivationally related form criminalize → criminal

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