CONVICTED Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in condemned

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verb

past tense of convict

as in sentenced

to find or pronounce guilty an accused person is presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law

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That and a cascade of circumstantial evidence led to him being convicted of the crime in 2010. — Taylor Croft, AJC.com, 6 July 2026 Moscatiello and co-defendant Anthony Ferrari were convicted of first-degree murder. — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026 Had she been convicted at trial, Kent could have spent decades in prison as opposed to the 15-year statutory maximum that the material support conviction carries. — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 6 July 2026 Correia was convicted in 2021 on 21 counts, later reduced when a judge dismissed 10 charges, leaving 11 convictions to stand. — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 6 July 2026 Yang also was convicted of embezzlement, offering bribes, misappropriation of public funds, abuse of power and money laundering in one of the most dramatic corruption cases in recent years in terms of the sheer scale of the bribes involved. — ABC News, 6 July 2026 Court records show Tinucci was convicted of drunken driving in 2009 in Lyon County and in 2018 in Chippewa County. — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 6 July 2026 Jimmy Syhathep was convicted July 2 of carjacking, evading officers, hit-and-run and felony possession of a firearm, a spokesperson for the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office wrote in a statement issued Monday. — Reeti Malhotra july 6, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026 Murdaugh, once a powerful personal injury attorney in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, was convicted in 2023 of killing his wife, Maggie, 52, and their younger son, Paul, 22, at the family’s hunting estate in June 2021. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026

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Jim Trusty, the lawyer for Rozier, excoriated the league after a hearing Wednesday that served as a status update on Rozier’s case, as well as the other three defendants who remain indicted alongside him.

— Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 11 June 2026
The conservative-leaning New York Post has also reported Wahhaj was listed as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

— Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025

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Researchers sometimes refer to these influences as permission structures, or social cues that signal whether certain behaviors are likely to be rewarded, ignored or condemned.

— Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
The author — who first came under fire in 2020 for making remarks widely condemned as transphobic — has denied being transphobic, defending her views as pro-feminist.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026

Definition of condemned

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Several temple administrators have denounced robotic elephants for rituals and festivals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Activists and faith leaders denounced the conditions at the office during a press conference the previous day, calling on officials to visit the facility and said there had been bad conditions at the facility for weeks.

— Vera Lucia Pappaterra, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026

Definition of denounced

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Why had Balogun been punished so severely when other seemingly similar plays in this World Cup had avoided punishment altogether?

— Becky Sullivan, NPR, 6 July 2026
Mexico punished the Czech Republic’s sloppiness with aplomb after weathering their opponents’ good start, scoring all three goals in the second half.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 July 2026

Definition of punished

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Two people were arrested and charged with murder Thursday in the 2024 overdose death of a Fort Worth man, according to online jail records.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2026
Butler was arrested Thursday and charged with manslaughter, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

— Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026

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