misdemeanant
Americannoun
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a person who is guilty of misbehavior.
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Law. a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor.
noun
Etymology
Origin of misdemeanant
Example Sentences
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Mazzocco is the 10th misdemeanant to be sentenced, along with one felon, and the fourth to be sentenced to jail time.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
“The flight of a suspected misdemeanant does not always justify a warrantless entry into a home,” she wrote.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2021
That venerable political firebrand had been adjudged guilty of contempt of court and had been sentenced to seven days' imprisonment as a first-class misdemeanant.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
But there was seldom a clearer chain of circumstantial evidence pointing to the perpetrator of any crime than that which convicted the Murillo of being the misdemeanant.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus
It is just about my height, and I fancy it is a great deal darker and dingier than the room in which a first-class misdemeanant like Colonel Baker was confined.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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