I'm just a poor old man. I have no time for law-breakers. My legs are grey. My ears are gnarled. My eyes are old and bent.
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Lawbreaker
//ˈlɔ.bɹeɪkɚ//
Synonyms for "lawbreaker" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (23)
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Translations
26 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- закононаруши́тел noun (person who breaks the law)
Church Slavic
2 entries- законопрѣстѫпьникъ noun (person who breaks the law)
- прѣстѫпьникъ noun (person who breaks the law)
Estonian
1 entries- seaduserikkuja noun (person who breaks the law)
Finnish
1 entries- lainrikkoja noun (person who breaks the law)
French
2 entries- criminel noun (person who breaks the law)
- hors-la-loi noun (person who breaks the law)
Hungarian
1 entries- törvényszegő noun (person who breaks the law)
Latin
1 entries- lēgirupa noun (person who breaks the law)
Macedonian
1 entries- престапник noun (person who breaks the law)
Malayalam
1 entries- നിയമലംഘകൻ noun (person who breaks the law)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lovbryter noun (person who breaks the law)
Persian
2 entries- خاطی noun (person who breaks the law)
- قانونشکن noun (person who breaks the law)
Polish
2 entries- przestępca noun (person who breaks the law)
- przestępczyni noun (person who breaks the law)
Russian
4 entries- правонаруши́тель noun (person who breaks the law)
- правонаруши́тельница noun (person who breaks the law)
- престу́пник noun (person who breaks the law)
- престу́пница noun (person who breaks the law)
Ukrainian
4 entries- злочи́нець noun (person who breaks the law)
- злочи́нниця noun (person who breaks the law)
- пору́шник зако́ну noun (person who breaks the law)
- пору́шниця зако́ну noun (person who breaks the law)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
People often assume that speedboarders are disrespectful lawbreakers.
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Mr. Grimm pleaded guilty to a single count of tax fraud and was convicted in July 2015; he went on to serve eight months in prison. Lawmaker, law enforcer and lawbreaker — that’s a heck of a résumé, and alliterative, too!
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