cattivo

Definitions of cattivo
  1. noun
    a person who does harm to others
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    antonyms:
    giusto, valentuomo
    a person who is good to other people
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    contravventore, malfattore, reo
    a person who transgresses moral or civil law
    decadente
    a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
    distruttore
    a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
    serpe, serpente
    a deceitful or treacherous person
    adultero
    someone who commits adultery or fornication
    aggressore, assalitore, assaltatore, attaccante, attentatore
    someone who attacks
    condannato, galeotto
    a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
    imbroglione, truffaldino, turlupinatore, versipelle
    someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
    delinquente
    a young offender
    disertore, transfuga
    a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)
    iconoclasta
    a destroyer of images used in religious worship
    colpevole, reo, responsabile
    someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
    rastrello
    a dissolute man in fashionable society
    peccatore
    a person who sins (without repenting)
    usurpatore
    one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
    deturpatore, vandalo
    someone who willfully destroys or defaces property
    amatore, dongiovanni, donnaiolo, donnaiuolo, farfallone, mandrillo, play boy
    a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
    type of:
    anima, elemento, essere umano, individuo, microcosmo, persona, tipo, uomo
    a human being
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