Tom is a recidivist.
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Recidivist
/ɹɪˈsɪdɪvɪst/
Synonyms for "recidivist" (122 found)
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recreantregressiverenegaderenegadorenegaterepeaterreprobateretrograderetrogressiveretrorseretroversereturnablereturneereversiblereversionalreversionaryreversionerreversionistrevertiblerevulsionary
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4 entriescareer criminalchronic offenderrepeat offenderviolent recidivist
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This specimen was of English parentage, was a professional burglar, a confirmed recidivist, and—since he habitually carried firearms—a potential homicide.
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Persistent recidivists are "accidentally" left on the next habitable world. This practice of abandoning criminals on other people's planets is a point of friction between the quarians and the systems they pass through. Captains rarely have another choice; with space and resources at a premium, supporting a non-productive prison population is not an option.
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To return to Macbeth, I should like to note another psychological intuition of [William] Shakespeare’s, which is that women commit fewer crimes than men; but when they commit them they are more cruel and more obstinately recidivist than men. Lady Macbeth, for example, is more inhumanly ferocious than her husband.
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