Nouns (5)
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criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
n. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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Adverbs (0)
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Adjectives (9)
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criminal
adj. guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man"
criminal
adj. guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man"
criminal, felonious
adj. involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent"
condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious
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"
Fuzzynyms (104)
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bandit, brigand
n. an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
robber
n. a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence
gouger
n. an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye
cur
n. a cowardly and despicable person
rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet
n. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
villain, scoundrel
n. a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
burglar
n. a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
plagiarist, plagiarizer, plagiariser, literary pirate, pirate
n. someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
sneak
n. a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
mountebank, charlatan
n. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
Pretender
n. a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
marauder, predator, vulture, piranha
n. someone who attacks in search of booty
plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter
n. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
wide-open
adj. open wide; "left the doors wide-open"
nefarious, villainous
adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
incorrect
adj. (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles
guilty
adj. responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
regrettable, too bad
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"
illogical, unlogical
adj. lacking in correct logical relation
devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean
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"
demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
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"
corruptive, perversive, pestiferous
adj. tending to corrupt or pervert
black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
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"
flagitious, heinous
adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"
ill-famed, infamous, notorious
adj. known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";
disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking
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"
ignoble
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.
objectionable, obnoxious
adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous
adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
appalling, dismaying
adj. causing consternation; "appalling conditions"
abominable, detestable, execrable, odious
adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
pathetic, pitiable, pitiful
adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
offensive
adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
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"
Synonyms (51)
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at fault
adj. deserving blame; "admitted to being at fault"
blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable
adj. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence"
bloodguilty
adj. guilty of murder or bloodshed
chargeable, indictable
adj. liable to be accused, or cause for such liability; "the suspect was chargeable"; "an indictable offense"
condemned, convicted
adj. pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal"
conscience-smitten
adj. affected by conscience
delinquent
adj. guilty of a misdeed; "delinquent minors"
finable, fineable
adj. liable to a fine
guilt-ridden
adj. feeling or revealing a sense of guilt; "so guilt-ridden he could not face his father"
punishable
adj. liable to or deserving punishment; "punishable offenses"
amerciable
adj. of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge
banned, prohibited
adj. forbidden by law
bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled
adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
dirty, ill-gotten
adj. obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"
embezzled, misappropriated
adj. taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"
extrajudicial
adj. beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted; "an extrajudicial penalty"
extralegal, nonlegal
adj. not regulated or sanctioned by law; "there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances"
hot
adj. having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity; "hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"
illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful
adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"
misbranded, mislabeled
adj. branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements; "confiscated the misbranded drugs"
penal, punishable
adj. subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense"
under-the-counter, under the counter
adj. done or sold illicitly and secretly
unratified
adj. lacking legal authority; "the unratified Equal Right Amendment"
base, immoral
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"
mis
adj. (prefix) bad or wrong or lack: "misdeeds"; "misfire"
misguided, mistaken
adj. wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity"
Antonyms (1)
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legal
adj. established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
criminal
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