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Ananias
a habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying)
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William H. Bonney
United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881)
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Jesse James
United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
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Robert MacGregor
Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734)
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St. Mary Magdalene
sinful woman Jesus healed of evil spirits; she became a follower of Jesus
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Benedict Arnold
United States general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801)
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Alphonse Capone
United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947)
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Guy Fawkes
English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)
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Jack the Ripper
an unidentified English murderer in the 19th century
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Titus Oates
English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)
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John Wilkes Booth
United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)
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Lee Harvey Oswald
United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963)
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Jean Laffite
French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
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Sir Henry Morgan
a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
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Bartholomew Roberts
a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)
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Edward Thatch
an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
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Dick Turpin
English highwayman (1706-1739)
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Khayr ad-Din
Barbary pirate (died in 1546)
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offender, wrongdoer
a person who transgresses moral or civil law
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bad egg
(old-fashioned slang) a bad person
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decadent
a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
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destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster
a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
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debauchee, libertine, rounder
a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
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panderer
a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money)
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defiler, polluter
a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment
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scalawag, scallywag
a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
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seducer
a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing
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shocker
a shockingly bad person
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snake, snake in the grass
a deceitful or treacherous person
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trampler
someone who injures by trampling
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varmint, vermin
an irritating or obnoxious person
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victimiser, victimizer
a person who victimizes others
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abuser, maltreater
someone who abuses
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adulterer, fornicator
someone who commits adultery or fornication
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annihilator
a total destroyer
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aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker
someone who attacks
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barrater, barrator
someone guilty of barratry
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convict
a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
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beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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delinquent, juvenile delinquent
a young offender
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defector, deserter
a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)
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gigolo
a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman
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ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff
(Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
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iconoclast, image breaker
a destroyer of images used in religious worship
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transgressor
someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command
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malfeasant
one guilty of malfeasance
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molester
someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities
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no-show, nonattender, truant
someone who shirks duty
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culprit, perpetrator
someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
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fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer
someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
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principal
(criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
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blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue
a dissolute man in fashionable society
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backslider, recidivist, reversionist
someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
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miscreant, reprobate
a person without moral scruples
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diversionist, saboteur, wrecker
someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
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ladies' man, lady killer, seducer
a man who takes advantage of women
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seductress
a woman who seduces
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shark
a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
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pettifogger, shyster
a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
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evildoer, sinner
a person who sins (without repenting)
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slave dealer, slave trader, slaver
a person engaged in slave trade
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swinger, tramp
a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
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supplanter, usurper
one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
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vandal
someone who willfully destroys or defaces property
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debaucher, ravisher, violator
someone who assaults others sexually
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war criminal
an offender who violates international law during times of war
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philanderer, womaniser, womanizer
a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
