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lawbreaker

[ law-brey-ker ]

noun

  1. a person who breaks or violates the law.

    Synonyms: perpetrator, criminal, transgressor



lawbreaker

/ ˈlɔːˌbreɪkə /

noun

  1. a person who breaks the law
  2. informal.
    something that does not conform with legal standards or requirements
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈlawˌbreaking, nounadjective
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Other Words From

  • law·break·ing noun adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lawbreaker1

before 1050; Middle English lawbreker; replacing Old English lahbreca. See law 1, breaker 1
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Example Sentences

We will act with full force against enemies from without and lawbreakers from within in order to restore calm to the state of Israel.

For more than half a decade, he produced “World’s Dumbest,” a show that focused on the least-intelligent elements of various parts of society, including lawbreakers.

Snowden is the lawbreaker here, and his law-breaking is now being used to do damage to the United States as an end in itself.

Since then Wade, besides insulting me, has proved himself a lawbreaker.

Breach of taboo rendered not only the individual lawbreaker but the whole tribe, however innocent, liable to punishment.

Only Danny was neither a tyro nor a humbug, and had he not been a lawbreaker the world would have been to some extent the loser.

A shadowy, powerful group that slip silently between the stars, ready to bring the interstellar lawbreaker low.

The lawbreaker who comes with an army at his back cannot be served with a sheriff's warrant, nor arrested by a constable.

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