Synonyms:
criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
Meaning: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise
Meaning: declare illegal; outlaw; "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S."
Usage examples
"That so?" queried the outlaw, quite excitably.
He is an outlaw, and a heavy price is set upon his head."
William wandered round the neighbourhood experiencing all the thrill of the outlaw.
For several years he led a band of outlaw braves, who terrorized the Southern border.
The Maniac, The Bandit Chief, and The Outlaw can hardly be called light reading, but we strongly recommend the poem on Chicago:
Robin was given into his charge to protect and take safely home to his father, and when the attack was made by the outlaw's men, instead of doing anything to protect the little fellow and save him from being injured by Robin Hood's people, he thought only of himself.
Mr. Hemp, of Portugal Street, proclaimed his name lately as a reverend outlaw; and he has been seen at various foreign watering-places; sometimes doing duty; sometimes 'coaching' a stray gentleman's son at Carlsruhe or Kissingen; sometimes--must we say it?--lurking about the roulette-tables with a tuft to his chin.
At present the great mass of the public has sympathy for the law-breaker; just as, in old days, the peasants could not help admiring the outlaw who resisted unjust land laws and robbed the rich, or as today, under the capitalist regime, we can not withhold our sympathy from political prisoners, even though they have committed acts of violence which we deplore.