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lawbreaker

[ law-brey-ker ]

noun

  1. a person who breaks or violates the law.

    Synonyms: perpetrator, criminal, transgressor



lawbreaker

/ ˈlɔːˌbreɪkə /

noun

  1. a person who breaks the law
  2. informal.
    something that does not conform with legal standards or requirements


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Derived Forms

  • ˈlawˌbreaking, nounadjective

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Other Words From

  • law·break·ing noun adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of lawbreaker1

before 1050; Middle English lawbreker; replacing Old English lahbreca. See law 1, breaker 1

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Example Sentences

Snowden is the lawbreaker here, and his law-breaking is now being used to do damage to the United States as an end in itself.

Since then Wade, besides insulting me, has proved himself a lawbreaker.

Breach of taboo rendered not only the individual lawbreaker but the whole tribe, however innocent, liable to punishment.

Only Danny was neither a tyro nor a humbug, and had he not been a lawbreaker the world would have been to some extent the loser.

A shadowy, powerful group that slip silently between the stars, ready to bring the interstellar lawbreaker low.

The lawbreaker who comes with an army at his back cannot be served with a sheriff's warrant, nor arrested by a constable.

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