trespasser

noun

as in offender

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Recent Examples of trespasser Denver International Airport has confirmed to CBS Colorado that a runway trespasser has been detained after an incident over the weekend. — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 The reports began last August, with a report of a daytime trespasser, who wasn’t located. — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 In ruling on the motion, Pasco County Circuit Court Judge Joshua Riba acknowledged Garrett was a trespasser. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 The system’s operator reviewed the alarm but assumed the motion detected had been nearby deer, and did not see the trespasser on the camera. — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 13 May 2026 In a statement Sunday, airport CEO Phil Washington characterized the person who was killed as a trespasser. — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 10 May 2026 Disney Channel alum Dylan Sprouse reportedly held a trespasser at gunpoint outside his Los Angeles home early Friday and tackled the man before authorities arrived at the scene. — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026 One of them told Felder that the precinct had received a complaint about a trespasser at the synagogue. — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trespasser
  1. offender
  2. wrongdoer
  3. criminal
  4. sinner
  5. perpetrator
  6. felon
  7. lawbreaker
  8. transgressor
Noun
  • His lacerating wit spares no member of his staff—a mix of true incompetents, off-putting savants, ticking time bombs, and onetime offenders prematurely consigned to professional purgatory.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Penalties increase if offenders cover their faces or someone is injured.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of offender
Noun
  • There’s no major wreckage here, nor is comeuppance meted out to the wrongdoers.
    — Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The Native community had its own ways of punishing wrongdoers, but Stevens’ role was to protect her client’s constitutional rights.
    — Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of wrongdoer
Noun
  • This can help prevent criminals from opening new credit accounts using your information.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Ford placed the inmate’s bid for clemency on the agenda of the state pardons board — an example, Lombardo claims, of the way Ford treats criminals.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of criminal
Noun
  • His life moved from pain to promise, despair to hope, and perhaps as humanly possible, from sinner to saint.
    — Steven D. Reske, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • On one page, tiny, antlike sinners tumbled down a cliff toward perdition.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of sinner
Noun
  • Child welfare agents said abuse may have occurred, but the perpetrator was unknown, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.
    — Lara Korte The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Throughout Israel’s history, even in the rare cases of conviction of a soldier or a policeman for killing Palestinians, the maximum time a perpetrator spent in prison was three years and four months.
    — Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of perpetrator
Noun
  • Salceda was charged with one count of murder and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • He was charged with first-degree murder with an enhancement of personal use of a firearm, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
    — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of felon
Noun
  • Yet, punishing such authoritarian lawbreakers for their domestic and international crimes is essential, in my view.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The lawbreakers were gathered this day on a cliff and a nearby arch, a crowd of around 50 young people — 14- to 20-year-olds, mostly males.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of lawbreaker
Noun
  • Helen is depicted variously in art and literature as both a transgressor and as a victim of abduction.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of transgressor

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