juvenile delinquent

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for juvenile delinquent
Noun
  • Williams is already Beale Street jerky tough and looks like a plug-and-play 3-and-D wing.
    Kelly Iko, The Athletic, 11 Apr. 2024
  • When a set of tortuous toughs relocate to the neighborhood, his temperament shifts and the scenes increasingly unravel the inner workings of his shaken psyche.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • In her ethnographic study of Jamaican gangs, Jaffe argues against seeing the neighborhood strongmen—or dons—as primarily violent, exploitative gangsters.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Lives are literally on the line in Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid Girls on Wire, a surprisingly gritty study of people left behind or living in the margins that fuses gangster realism with social drama and leavens both with a dash of unexpected humor.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Prosecutors are basing their case against Rosario on testimony by Russo, Zummo and Rubino — all mobsters looking to avoid lengthy prison sentences, Rosario’s defense attorney Louis Freeman told the jury.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • James Gandolfini played mobster Tony Soprano for all six seasons of The Sopranos.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • After a confident and charming pilot, the show wastes no time in getting weird — from psychic gorillas to time travel to a walking nuclear weapon (Firestorm).
    EW.com, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • While both Rwanda and Uganda offer soul-stirring encounters with gorillas and chimps, Rwanda has earned the most attention—and tourism dollars—to date.
    Alexandra Owens, Robb Report, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.
    Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The 20th-century Yellowstone Dutton Ranch is under siege from a greedy developer (James Bond star Timothy Dalton) and his thugs in the new season.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025
  • But authorities now believe the most heinous acts were the handiwork of a one-time nursing student from Puerto Rico who evolved over a decade from teenage burglar to drug trafficker to rampaging thug.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • When Jennifer Lawrence isn’t full-frontally beating the bejesus out of insouciant hoodlums, that is.
    Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2025
  • However, their dreams are threatened by the hoodlums in the Riverbottom Gang.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There are also a number of items from the defunct New York City punk club CBGB, which closed down in 2006, that are being auctioned off.
    Mauricio Viladegutt, SPIN, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The casting was diverse and inclusive, embracing a range of identities and backgrounds that reflect the true spirit of the U.K. There was also a distinct British punk edge to many of the collections, and a sense of rebellion, of individualism, that is unmistakably part of British fashion.
    Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Juvenile delinquent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/juvenile%20delinquent. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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