lawbreaker

We will act with full force against enemies from without and lawbreakers from within in order to restore calm to the state of Israel.
Israeli forces hit Hamas tunnels in Gaza as all-out war looms; more rockets rain down|Steve Hendrix, Michael E. Miller, Shira Rubin|May 14, 2021|Washington Post
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.
The Capitol rioters kept posting incriminating things on social media. Unsurprisingly, they were mocked — and arrested.|Travis Andrews|January 19, 2021|Washington Post
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.
Yes, We Scan: Why the NSA Collected Intelligence on Mexico and France|David Frum|October 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Since then Wade, besides insulting me, has proved himself a lawbreaker.
Hidden Gold|Wilder Anthony

Breach of taboo rendered not only the individual lawbreaker but the whole tribe, however innocent, liable to punishment.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe|John M. Tyler
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.
By Advice of Counsel|Arthur Train
A shadowy, powerful group that slip silently between the stars, ready to bring the interstellar lawbreaker low.
The Misplaced Battleship|Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)
The lawbreaker who comes with an army at his back cannot be served with a sheriff's warrant, nor arrested by a constable.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. IV. October, 1863, No. IV.|Various

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lawbreaker

/ (ˈlɔːˌbreɪkə) /

noun

a person who breaks the law

informal something that does not conform with legal standards or requirements

Derived forms of lawbreaker

lawbreaking, noun, adjective

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