Usage of "malefactor"

português

fora-de-lei

catalão

criminal

espanhol

malhechor

Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime.

fora-de-lei

Sinônimos

Examples for "criminal"

A criminal response to their situation simply does not work, Becroft said. 
 Radio NZ 

The new right applies throughout criminal proceedings, including when receiving legal advice. 
 The Irish Times 

Discussing major changes to criminal law with the new act before parliament. 
 Radio NZ 

The questions raised by criminal cases involving teenagers are difficult to answer. 
 Reuters 

Last week Spain said the attack appeared to be criminal in nature. 
 Reuters 

Several Muslim leaders called for international action to outlaw acts of blasphemy. 
 Reuters 

Sigmund trained him in the ways of the hunter and the outlaw. 
 The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths 

It also seeks to outlaw ties between local and foreign political groups. 
 Reuters 

The Government has accepted a Fine Gael Bill to outlaw ticket touting. 
 The Irish Times 

Working for Amnesty International, to seek to outlaw torture throughout the world. 
 The Guardian 

She cradled her left hand in the crook of her right arm. 
 The Good Girls 

In the crook of one arm, he carried several round red fruit. 
 Rain Wild Chronicles 02 - Dragon Haven 

He was completely at a loss in the presence of the master-crook. 
 Green Fancy 

The crook-neck squash in the Northwest is a great success this season. 
 Remarks 

The crook says he can if the money is in his hand. 
 Somewhere in Red Gap 

I've been at the top of every felon's wish list ever since. 
 First degree 

The felon Moors have attacked him: he is hard pressed in battle. 
 Hero Tales 

Here slinks the pickpocket, here emerges the burglar, here skulks the felon. 
 Lucretia — Volume 04 

A common man, an impostor, a felon, was never thus waited upon. 
 Ben-Hur 

We shouldn't have been exactly proud of a felon in the family. 
 The Freelands 

Uso de malefactor em inglês

Despite my resemblance to a high-caste malefactor of the Calcutta prison-wards . 
 The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative 

Truly, I long for nothing now but the death of this malefactor. 
 King of the Jews: A story of Christ's last days on Earth 

He rewards the man whom his ministers would punish as a malefactor. 
 Halil the Pedlar: A Tale of Old Stambul 

He entered the woman's house after the earthquake, accompanied by another malefactor. 
 Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions 

For permitting this indulgence to a malefactor, Beardman, the under-sheriff, was punished. 
 Umbrellas and Their History 

It is seldom that law loses sight of eventual utility in a malefactor. 
 The Spy 

Having left Plath for another woman, Hughes has often been branded the malefactor. 
 Wired 

Rank and fortune were offered to any malefactor who would compass the murder. 
 The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 32: 1582-84 

Therefore he is in the indictment styled, Communis malefactor, calumniator, et seminator litium. 
 The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 

The unfortunate bachelor seems to have been treated somewhat as a public malefactor. 
 The Great Intendant : A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-... 

They died at the same time with the afore-mentioned malefactor, Wilson, at Tyburn. 
 Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned a... 

I mean that he is no common malefactor or whatever it may be. 
 Beverly of Graustark 

Rank and fortune were offered to any malefactor who would compass his murder. 
 A Hero and Some Other Folks 

From his eyes stared a sorrowful anxiety like that of a poor malefactor. 
 Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 / Little J... 

He had as hanging a face as ever a malefactor carried. 
 The Honour of the Flag 

As for the other malefactor, William Hawksworth, he was a Yorkshireman by birth. 
 Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned a... 