trespasser

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for trespasser
Noun
  • Maryland continues to maintain a civil justice system that favors wrongdoers instead of people innocently injured due to negligence.
    Bruce M. Plaxen, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2025
  • So, people may feel compelled to condemn the wrongdoer to restore a sense of justice.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Anti-crime priorities In his remarks, Abbott also unveiled some get-tougher-on crime proposals, including eliminating parole for criminals convicted of child trafficking.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • And despite promises by the administration to remove the worst criminals, ICE deportation data from Jan. 1 to June 24 shows most people who were removed or detained didn’t have a violent criminal record, CBS News reported.
    Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • The American project is a patchwork of dreamers and doers, saints and sinners, stitched together by the thread of promise that stretches across generations.
    F. Willis Johnson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
  • Horses and men, dust and earth, saints and sinners.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The man faces five criminal charges including unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon and criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.
    Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 31 July 2025
  • Prosecutors also asked the federal court to dismiss separate criminal charges levied against Wiederhorn of being a federal felon in possession of a handgun and ammunition.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Cross serves the town of Eddington as a useless figure of authority—a shiftless, asthmatic grump who mumbles complaints at lawbreakers and halfheartedly manages a staff of cops at his office.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 July 2025
  • On the series, Chapman hunted down lawbreakers who skipped bail.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • Cabot, clearly mortified, turned and hid her face, and Andy Byron sunk out of the frame like the guilty party in a lineup of potential perps.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
  • The perp then sprayed the mother in the face and arm with the irritant as the train approached the Court Square-23rd St. station.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • TikTok and social media are the culprits behind what appears to be a 2000s fashion resurgence.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 30 July 2025
  • Earnings could be the culprit, with negative reactions outweighing the positives.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • Its victims, malefactors, and investigators are largely without personality, their function being merely to leave or follow trails, and to wear out a reader with anticlimax after anticlimax.
    Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • The sense of purpose that motivated Bush after 9/11, combined with his visceral antipathy to Saddam—who was, after all, one of the great malefactors of the modern age—brought moral clarity, as well as strategic myopia.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
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“Trespasser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trespasser. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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