misdemeanant

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Recent Examples of misdemeanant The Northern Neck Regional Jail, where Paul Manafort will spend at least the next three months while awaiting trial, has the outward appearance of being a small local jail holding street thugs and assorted misdemeanants. Tom Jackman, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018 The Northern Neck Regional Jail, where Paul Manafort will spend at least the next three months while awaiting trial, has the outward appearance of being a small local jail holding street thugs and assorted misdemeanants. Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 16 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misdemeanant
Noun
  • One of them told Felder that the precinct had received a complaint about a trespasser at the synagogue.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The trespasser was shouting profanities and throwing water from a plastic bottle, Tahara detailed.
    Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Anyone can see how many cases are filed, how much attorneys collect, and who the worst offenders are.
    Tom Manzo, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Punish the worst offenders by requiring them to apologize, publicly, for missing the mark.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Göring, played by Russell Crowe, is the troubling centerpiece of James Vanderbilt’s ambitious film devoted to the trial of the major Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg in 1945–1946.
    Alice Kaplan, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Also included is a 13% increase in funding for the Department of Justice to focus on violent criminals and a $481 million increase in funding to enhance aviation safety and support an air traffic controller hiring surge.
    LISA MASCARO, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Anderson frames his argument largely in relation to the thought of thirteenth-century theologian Thomas Aquinas, who argued that Christians are generally obliged to directly confront someone who is behaving wrongly, and to do it in private to preserve the wrongdoer’s reputation.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 26 Mar. 2026
  • He’s talked tough in news conferences about prosecuting child predators, drug traffickers and assorted wrongdoers.
    Dan Sullivan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In the comments, Ivey argued with fans using Bible verses and accused several of being sinners for their beliefs and lifestyles.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • One of my grandsons believes that his denomination is the only one and the rest of us are all sinners.
    Jeanne Phillips, Dallas Morning News, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Then there’s Haim, so full of venom and vitriol, who depending on one’s perspective is low-key the hero or villain of the film.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Javier Bardem’s Oscar-winning performance as Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men remains an iconic villain turn 20 years later.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The thugs would insinuate themselves into the confidence of wayfarers and, when a favorable opportunity presented itself, strangle them by throwing a handkerchief or noose around their necks.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • No government masked thugs shooting down our neighbors in the streets.
    Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The first pictures McCullin took were of hoodlums and down-and-outs, subjects that reflected his own hardscrabble background.
    Andrew Pulver, Air Mail, 31 Jan. 2026
  • But as Duterte’s father, Vicente, had increasingly gravitated toward Malacañang, his son hung out with the family bodyguards—and crafted the persona of a rough-talking bugoy, or hoodlum, in his native Bisayan tongue.
    Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

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“Misdemeanant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdemeanant. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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