mala persona

Definitions of mala persona
  1. noun
    a person who does harm to others
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    antonyms:
    buena persona
    a person who is good to other people
    examples:
    María Magdalena
    sinful woman Jesus healed of evil spirits; she became a follower of Jesus
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    infractor
    a person who transgresses moral or civil law
    decadente
    a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
    destructor
    a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
    libertino
    a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
    abusador, abusón
    someone who abuses
    follador, fornicador
    someone who commits adultery or fornication
    agresor, asaltador, asaltante
    someone who attacks
    condenado, convicto
    a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
    embustero, engañador, impostor, mentiroso
    someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
    delincuente juvenil, merchero, quinqui
    a young offender
    desertor, tránsfuga, tránsfugo, trásfuga, trásfugo
    a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)
    entretenido, gigolo, gigoló, mantenido
    a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman
    iconoclasta
    a destroyer of images used in religious worship
    malhechor, transgresor, trasgresor
    someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command
    maleante
    one guilty of malfeasance
    truhán
    someone who shirks duty
    autor, culpable, perpetrador, reo, responsable
    someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
    disoluto, licencioso
    a dissolute man in fashionable society
    reincidente
    someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
    crápula, guiñapo, libertino, réprobo
    a person without moral scruples
    saboteador
    someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
    abogaducho, trampista
    a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
    pecador
    a person who sins (without repenting)
    esclavista, negrero
    a person engaged in slave trade
    usurpador
    one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
    vándalo
    someone who willfully destroys or defaces property
    criminal de guerra
    an offender who violates international law during times of war
    braguetero, ligón, mujeriego
    a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
    type of:
    alma, humano, individuo, mortal, persona, ser humano
    a human being
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