malefactors in English

noun

1

a person who commits a crime or some other wrong.

Good policing and tough sentencing have pushed New York to a tipping point, deterring some potential malefactors from crime.

synonyms: wrongdoer, miscreant, offender, criminal, culprit, villain, lawbreaker, felon, evildoer, delinquent, hooligan, hoodlum, sinner, transgressor, crook, thug, trespasser

noun

• wrongdoer, miscreant, offender, criminal, culprit, villain, lawbreaker, felon, evildoer, delinquent, hooligan, hoodlum, sinner, transgressor, crook, thug, trespasser
• outlaw, crook, felon, criminal

Use "malefactors" in a sentence

1. Malefactors will be pursued and punished.

2. The justification was to make police patrols more unpredictable to potential malefactors.

3. In Luke 23:39-43, Jesus Befriended one of the malefactors on the cross who was not religious.

4. It is a hearsay that wealthy and powerful malefactors escape while the poor and friendless go to jail .

5. The earl had gone on ahead in order to round up malefactors and provide the court with some impressive numbers for trial.

6. Mordovia is the cesspit into which are flushed the malcontents and malefactors of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

7. It was then the badge of infamy and sign of shame—the punishment of the Basest of slaves and the vilest of malefactors