Recidivist

//ɹɪˈsɪdɪvɪst//

Synonyms for "recidivist" (119 found)

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Translations

21 translations across 14 languages.

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Bulgarian

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  • рецидиви́ст noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)
  • рецидиви́стка noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Czech

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  • recidivista noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Danish

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  • recidivist noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Dutch

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  • recidivist noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

French

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  • récidiviste noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

German

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  • Wiederholungstäter noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)
  • Wiederholungstäterin noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Indonesian

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  • residivis noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Italian

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  • recidivo noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • рецидиви́ст noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)
  • рецидиви́стка noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Manx

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  • aahuittymagh noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)
  • cooyl-skyrraghtagh noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Polish

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  • recydywista noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)
  • recydywistka noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • recidivista noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)
  • reincidente noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Russian

2 entries
  • рецидиви́ст noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)
  • рецидиви́стка noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Spanish

1 entries
  • reincidente noun (one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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Tom is a recidivist.

Source: tatoeba (7955894)

This specimen was of English parentage, was a professional burglar, a confirmed recidivist, and—since he habitually carried firearms—a potential homicide.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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