malefact

n

1. criminal, felon, larcener, larcenist, misdemeanant, lawbreaker; convict, Sl. jailbird, parolee, exconvict, Inf. ex-con, recidivist, repeat offender, Inf. chronic crook; transgressor, trespasser, offender, culprit, miscreant; wrongdoer, evildoer, sinner; malfeasant, misfeasor; perjurer; Inf. scofflaw.

2. gangster, mobster, racketeer, mafioso, desperado, terrorist; thug, U.S. tough, Inf. toughie, mugger, ruffian, Inf. plugugly, rowdy, hoodlum, Sl. hood, Inf. goon, hooligan, Chiefly Brit. rough, Inf. roughneck, Inf. baddy, Sl. bad actor, Sl. gunsel, Sl. mug, Australian Sl. larrikin, Brit. Hist.Mohock, (in Paris) apache.

3. assassin, murderer, killer, slayer, sniper; strangler, cutthroat, garroter; liquidator, Euph. silencer, Euph. dispatcher; gunman, All U.S. Sl. gun, hired gun, hit man, triggerman, hatchet man, torpedo.

4. bandit, hold-up man, Sl. stick-up man, armed robber; robber, burglar, thief, stealer, purloiner, Inf. crook; cracksman, Raffles, second-story man, cat thief; shoplifter, pickpocket, purse-snatcher, cutpurse; embezzler, peculator, Law. defalcator.

5. highwayman, footpad, Sl. yegg or yeggman, outlaw, Sp. bandolero, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Australian. bushranger, bravo, brigand; picaroon, rogue, (in India and Burma) dacoit.

6. extortionist, blackmailer, usurer, loan shark, Sl. bleeder; smuggler, runner, bootlegger, contrabandist, white-slaver; swindler, trickster, sharper, confidence man, con artist, con man; forger, counterfeiter, Fr. faux-monnayeur, Brit. Inf. coiner.

7. kidnapper, abductor, rapist; sodomist, pervert, degenerate, child molester, Sl. short eyes.

8. arsonist, incendiary; rioter, revolutionary, insurgent; bomb-thrower, bomb-planter.

9. villain, blackguard, reprobate, miscreant, knave, wretch, Archaic. caitiff; scapegrace, scoundrel, rogue, Archaic. varlet, scamp, Inf. scalawag, rapscallion; monster, demon, devil, hellhound, fiend; imp, rascal, mischief:maker.