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Definition of offender : One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.

Synonyms:

crimes, wrongdoer, malefactor

con, prisoner, defendant, recidivist, suspect, captive, convict, lawbreaker, loser, scofflaw, jailbird, felon, lifer, criminal, culprit, internee

Usage examples:

• Nay, sahibs, I am a political offender, not a soldier!" - "King--of the Khyber Rifles", Talbot Mundy.
• While on the way the ship was seized by an unknown power and not allowed to proceed until the offender was three times selected by lot and then cast overboard. - "The Makers and Teachers of Judaism", Charles Foster Kent.
• It was a pleasant thing to make other people laugh, but if he could allow another to bear the blame of it, and not speak up to say he was the offender, I could not trust him even when he did speak. - "Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy.", Elizabeth P. Peabody Mary Mann.