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lawbreaker
[ law-brey-ker ]
lawbreaker
/ ˈlɔːˌbreɪkə /
noun
- a person who breaks the law
- 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
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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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