n. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime

adj. guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man"

adj. guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man"

adj. involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent"

adj. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"

n. an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band

n. a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence

n. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

n. an inferior dog or one of mixed breed

n. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

n. a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

n. a thief who enters a building with intent to steal

n. someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

n. someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

n. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

n. someone who attacks in search of booty

n. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

adj. lax in enforcing laws; "a wide-open town"

adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"

adj. not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

adj. responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; or marked by guilt; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"; "a guilty conscience"; "guilty behavior"

adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

adj. deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"

adj. lacking in correct logical relation

adj. showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"

adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"

adj. "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

adj. having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"

adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"

adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

adj. causing consternation; "appalling conditions"

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"

adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"

adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

adj. deserving blame; "admitted to being at fault"

adj. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence"

adj. guilty of murder or bloodshed

adj. liable to be accused, or cause for such liability; "the suspect was chargeable"; "an indictable offense"

adj. pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal"

adj. affected by conscience

adj. guilty of a minor misdeed; "delinquent minors"

adj. liable to a fine

adj. feeling or revealing a sense of guilt; "so guilt-ridden he could not face his father"

adj. liable to or deserving punishment; "punishable offenses"

adj. of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge

adj. forbidden by law

adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

adj. obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"

adj. taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"

adj. beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted; "an extrajudicial penalty"

adj. not regulated or sanctioned by law; "there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances"

adj. recently stolen or smuggled; "hot merchandise"; "a hot car"

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"

adj. branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements; "confiscated the misbranded drugs"

adj. subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense"

adj. done or sold illicitly and secretly

adj. lacking legal authority; "the unratified Equal Right Amendment"

adj. not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds"

adj. (prefix) bad or wrong or lack: "misdeeds"; "misfire"

adj. wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity"

adj. established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules