offender

noun
/əˈfen.də(ɹ)/UK/əˈfen.dɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English offendour, offender, offendir, equivalent to offend + -er.

  1. inherited from offendour

Definitions

  1. One who gives or causes offense, or does something wrong.

    • Almost all down trains are late, however; the empty wagon trains are probably the worst offenders and one or two hours' late running by them is not unusual.
  2. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for offender. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA