offender
noun
someone who has violated a criminal, religious, or moral law.
nonoffender
-
a word derived from
offender.
Example Sentences
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"For four decades," they write, "large bodies of evidence have consistently shown about a ten-point gap between the average offender and nonoffender in Great Britain and in the U.S."
From Time Magazine Archive
