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malefactor
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malefactor noun bandit, brigand, convict, criminal, culprit, delinquent, desperado, evildoer, felon, gangster, hardened criminal, homo maleficus, homo sceleratus, hoodlum, hooligan, lawbreaker, lawless individual, miscreant, misdemeanant, offender, offender against the law, outlaw, racketeer, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, rogue, ruffian, scamp, scoundrel, trespasser, villain, violator of laws, wrongdoer
See also: convict, criminal, delinquent, embezzler, felon, hoodlum, lawbreaker, offender, outlaw, racketeer, recidivist, wrongdoer

MALEFACTOR. He who bas been guilty of some crime; in another sense, one who has been convicted of having committed a crime.
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After all, they have broken the rules by which the rest of us abide and while we hope, perhaps forlornly, that they'll reform, we need to see them making reparation for their malefactions.
Don't get soft - these prisoners are criminals by Birmingham Mail (England)
For I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have, by the cunning of the scene, Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions.
The uses of interpretation in Hamlet by Croxford, Leslie / Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
Even Jane Austen's portrayals of life among the lesser gentry are strangely dominated by the benefactions and malefactions of the upper nobility, Darnley in Pride and Prejud ice, for example.
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