Wrongdoer: alternatives and connections

One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

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The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

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Assailing; attacking.

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One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant.

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One who attacks.

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One who backslides.

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One guilty of barratry.

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One who, or that which, beguiles.

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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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One who cheats.

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Proved or found guilty; convicted.

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One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.

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One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.

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Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.

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One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service…

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One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.

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One who molests.

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Same as Pander.

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A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.

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One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime.

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A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.

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One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.

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Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government…

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One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.

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Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.

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Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.

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A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.

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One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of…

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That which makes smooth or sleek.

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One who supplants.

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One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.

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One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.

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One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

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One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.

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One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.

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