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
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 John Augustus O'Shea
To be a "first-class misdemeanant" seems to me the height of happiness for a literary man.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., subsequently presented to the Home Secretary a memorial, signed by 1,500 citizens, praying that Hardiment should be classed as a first-class misdemeanant.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
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