Synonyms of defendants

defendants

noun

plural of defendant

as in offenders

a person who is being sued or accused of a crime in a court of law

The jury believed that the defendant was guilty.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• offenders
• criminals
• suspects
• accused
• perpetrators
• culprits
• convicts
• fishes
• arrestees
• detainees
• accomplices
• principals
• fish
• lawbreakers
• misdemeanants
• desperados
• crooks
• malefactors
• miscreants
• outlaws
• desperadoes
• jailbirds
• villains
• wrongdoers
• trespassers
• perps
• racketeers
• gangsters
• thugs
• sinners
• mobsters
• hoodlums
• transgressors
• guns
• hooligans
• recidivists
• triggermen
• misdoers
• misfeasors
• evildoers
• gallows birds
• enforcers
• blackhanders
• backsliders
• gunmen
• button men
• gunsels
• hit men
• relapsers
• repeaters

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lawmen
• gangbusters