| Main Entry: | convict |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal |
Synonyms: |
captive, con, culprit, felon, jailbird, long-termer, loser*, malefactor, prisoner, repeater |
Antonyms: |
victim |
| Main Entry: | convict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | find guilty |
Synonyms: |
adjudge, attaint, bring to justice, condemn, declare guilty, doom, frame, imprison, pass sentence on, pronounce guilty, put away, put the screws to, rap, send up the river, send up, sentence, throw the book at |
Antonyms: |
exonerate, free, liberate, release |
| Main Entry: | captive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person held physically |
Synonyms: |
bondman, bondservant, bondwoman, con, convict, detainee, hostage, internee, prisoner, prisoner of war, slave |
Antonyms: |
free man, independent |
| Main Entry: | criminal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who breaks the law |
Synonyms: |
bad actor, black marketeer, blackmailer, con, convict, crook, culprit, delinquent, desperado, deuce, evildoer, ex-con, felon, fugitive, gangster, guerilla, heavy*, hood, hoodlum, hooligan*, hustler, inside person, jailbird, lawbreaker, malefactor, mobster, mug, muscle*, offender, outlaw, racketeer, repeater, scofflaw, sinner, slippery eel, thug*, transgressor, trespasser, wrongdoer, yardbird |
Antonyms: |
law, police |
| Main Entry: | culprit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person responsible for wrongdoing |
Synonyms: |
con, convict, criminal, delinquent, evildoer, ex-con, felon, fugitive, guilty party, jailbird, malefactor, miscreant, offender, rascal, sinner, transgressor, wrongdoer, yardbird |
| Main Entry: | damn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condemn, denounce |
Synonyms: |
abuse, anathematize, attack, ban, banish, blaspheme, blast, cast out, castigate, censure, complain of, confound, convict, criticize, cry down, curse, cuss, darn, denunciate, doom, drat, excommunicate, excoriate, execrate, expel, flame, fulminate against, imprecate, inveigle against, jinx, object to, objurgate, pan, penalize, proscribe, punish, revile, sentence, slam, swear, thunder against |
| Notes: | a dam is a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water while damn is used as an expletive meaning cursed, condemned to hell |
Antonyms: |
bless, cherish, commend, elevate, exalt, favor, glorify, laud, praise, promote |
| Main Entry: | desperado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal |
Synonyms: |
bandit, convict, cutthroat, gangster, hoodlum, lawbreaker, mugger, outlaw, ruffian, thug |
| Main Entry: | felon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal |
Synonyms: |
con, convict, delinquent, ex-con, jailbird, lawbreaker, lifer, loser*, malefactor, offender, outlaw, yardbird |
Antonyms: |
police |
| Main Entry: | lawbreaker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal |
Synonyms: |
black marketeer, blackmailer, con, convict, crook, culprit, delinquent, felon, fugitive, gangster, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jailbird, malefactor, mobster, offender, outlaw, racketeer, scofflaw |
| Main Entry: | miscreant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is very bad, immoral |
Synonyms: |
black sheep, blackguard, bootlegger, bully, cad, caitiff, convict, criminal, culprit, delinquent, drunkard, evildoer, felon, fink, heel, hoodlum, jailbird, loafer, louse, lowlife, malefactor, outcast, outlaw, pickpocket, racketeer, rapscallion, rascal, rat, reprobate, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, scum*, sinner, sneak, vagabond, villain, wretch, wrongdoer |
Antonyms: |
goody-goody |