offender
noun
someone who has violated a criminal, religious, or moral law.
offenders
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pluralof offender.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Attempting to distinguish among crimes and offenders for clemency would inadvertently create two classes of murder victims—those whose perpetrators deserve the death penalty and then the rest,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Names can also be shared with gaming companies, so they have the option of banning offenders from their platforms.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
In a judicial response of unprecedented firmness, courts have already sent 217 people, half of them first-time offenders, to prison over the events on Saturday, Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Bafflingly, repertory screenings are where I’ve run into some of the worst offenders.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham’s newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
