perpetrators

noun

plural of perpetrator
as in offenders

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perpetrators
  1. offenders
  2. criminals
  3. lawbreakers
  4. assassins
  5. bandits
  6. felons
  7. pirates
  8. crooks
Noun
  • The current penalty for disclosure violations is $200 for first-time offenders.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 22 July 2026
  • People who flout the ban will be kicked out of stations and multiple offenders could be given a permanent ban from the premises.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
Definition of offenders
Noun
  • That gives criminals several ways to target you, even when your Paidwork balance was nearly empty.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Cyber criminals are using highly convincing counterfeit audio, video, and identity fabrications as tools in ways that conventional detection methods will fail to identify.
    — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of criminals
Noun
  • Rollins is running for a job in justice, ostensibly to uphold the law and hold lawbreakers accountable.
    — Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Pinecrest police ends the Facebook post warning other neighbors in the area to stay vigilant, and for potential lawbreakers to stay far away.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of lawbreakers
Noun
  • Lucky Number Slevin, a movie about mistaken identity, rival crime syndicates, and assassins, was, for some reason (Josh Hartnett), one of the comfort movies of my childhood.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 1 July 2026
  • These artisans, with their trade secrets, were kept on Murano, a cluster of islands just across the lagoon from the city, ostensibly as a precaution against fire, though the state would also send assassins after anyone who tried to leave.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of assassins
Noun
  • The plot is set in motion when dacoits (armed bandits) rob and murder Ram Lal, the village moneylender and head of Mano Majra’s only Hindu household.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
  • Instead, most are romantic stories about young lovers separated by fate, and the rest are swashbuckling adventures full of bandits and pirates.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
Definition of bandits
Noun
  • Youngkin moved to require felons released from prison to apply individually for the restoration of their voting rights, rather than having the administration automatically grant them.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026
  • Jurors convicted the pair of being felons in possession of a firearm and found true allegations of prior felony convictions.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026
Definition of felons
Noun
  • The hijacking is the latest in a series of attacks attributed to Somali pirates, whose activities have resurfaced in the Gulf of Aden and the western Indian Ocean after years of relative inactivity.
    — Omar Faruk, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
  • But then a banquet meal goes horribly awry, and pirates sink the ship.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 July 2026
Definition of pirates
Noun
  • Also in his orbit are a consortium of crooks, including his cousin Freddie, a hip junkie, and Pepper, a taciturn hoodlum who was friends with Ray’s dad, Big Mike, a legendary thief.
    — Niela Orr, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • Nonetheless, skeptics seized on the news to warn that airport workers seeking a payoff might collude to cancel a flight, or that crooks could call in fake threats to shut down air travel.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Definition of crooks
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