lawbreaker

[ law-brey-ker ]
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noun
  1. a person who breaks or violates the law.

Origin of lawbreaker

1
before 1050; Middle English lawbreker; replacing Old English lahbreca.See law1, breaker1

Other words for lawbreaker

Other words from lawbreaker

  • law·break·ing, noun, adjective

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How to use lawbreaker in a sentence

  • The feds have a saying for those types of situations where lawbreaking is required: “badly captured, well held.”

    Trust Me, Dominique, Don't Run | Mansfield Frazier | May 18, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • No other speakers had urged the strikers as vigorously as the Socialists to abstain from violence or lawbreaking.

    Comrade Yetta | Albert Edwards
  • There are a lot of things which we must not see, a certain amount of lawbreaking which we must not notice.

  • In all this letter there is no distinction between the law-abiding and lawbreaking sections of the community.

  • For orderly and law-abiding people the disorderly and lawbreaking people always have an immense fascination anyhow.

    Europe Revised | Irvin S. Cobb
  • Desperate he was and lawbreaking, for law is law, whosoever it bears hard upon; but the heart was warm within him.

    The Trawler | James Brendan Connolly

British Dictionary definitions for lawbreaker

lawbreaker

/ (ˈlɔːˌbreɪkə) /


noun
  1. a person who breaks the law

  2. informal something that does not conform with legal standards or requirements

Derived forms of lawbreaker

  • lawbreaking, noun, adjective

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