Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who kidnaps; a man-stealer or child-stealer.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who kidnaps someone.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
- n. someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
Examples
“I'm convinced that this kidnapper is a very well-educated man.”
“FEYERICK: Hoping that maybe they can appeal to what they called the kidnapper's sense of dignity.”
“The predator rapist/kidnapper is going to A.. be more likely to hire a sex worker then commit the crime as part of that scenario.”
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“My daughter was kidnapped in my own house, and the kidnapper is demanding my top secret formula, something that cannot fall in the wrong hands.”
“Several months later, Mary Katherine remembered that Mitchell was among the homeless people the Smarts sometimes hired to do odd jobs and he was identified as the kidnapper.”
“The only thing left open to the kidnapper is face-to-face meets and that’s fish-in-a-barrel time for law enforcement.”
“GRACE: And then the so-called kidnapper says you know what, to heck with all the money.”
“I also found out that the investigators that were supposedly out working for the Anthony ` s were not even pursuing trying to find the kidnapper, which is very interesting to us.”
“PETER ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Nancy -- Nancy, in the recordings that we ` re hearing, you know, it was the perpetrator, the so-called kidnapper, maybe hoax kidnapper, that decided what to record, not the victim in this case, Miss Quinn.”
“With the top hat, the sunglasses and the bandana it looks to me like the kidnapper is a weird amalgam of Tom Petty, Sir Elton John and Michael Jackson.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kidnapper’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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supernatural creatures according to M...
Turned this up on etymonline.com (link). It's amazing.
Hobbit (n.)
1937, coined in the fantasy tales of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole...niss, nisses, thrummy-cap, fairy, whitewoman, nicknevin, sibyl, fates, sprite, gnome, cuttie, scrat and 186 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
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( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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A Swell Mob
Kinds of thieves.
thief, sneak thief, burglar, cat burglar, picklock, puggard, robber, grave robber, piller, porch climber, prowler, larcenist and 133 more...
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