Synonyms of recidivist

recidivist

noun

as in offender

formal a person who continues to commit crimes even after being caught and punished

Synonyms & Similar Words

• offender
• criminal
• lawbreaker
• backslider
• misdemeanant
• accomplice
• culprit
• principal
• jailbird
• miscreant
• crook
• convict
• malefactor
• outlaw
• perpetrator
• desperado
• relapser
• repeater
• sinner
• perp
• trespasser
• transgressor
• wrongdoer
• thug
• villain
• hoodlum
• hooligan
• gangster
• defendant
• racketeer
• mobster
• arrestee
• fish
• evildoer
• suspect
• detainee
• triggerman
• gunsel
• misfeasor
• misdoer
• gallows bird
• gun
• blackhander
• enforcer
• button man
• hit man
• gunman
• accused

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lawman
• gangbuster

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of recidivist

In February 2023, the 66-year-old Augustine was waiting for a subway train in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood when he was randomly pushed onto the tracks allegedly by a homeless stranger police described as a 44-year-old recidivist criminal. —Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024

Of recidivist criminals in front of the parole board. —Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 8 Feb. 2024

Various animals, some insects and a few recidivist restaurants lowlight this week’s Sick and Shut Down List of restaurants in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Palm Beach metropolitan area. —David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024

Anybody can understand that to stop bank robberies, authorities must — consistently and effectively — arrest and prosecute those who rob banks, deterring prospective offenders and locking up potential recidivists. —Maureen Flatley, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024