Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who breaks the law.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who breaks or violates the law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who disobeys the law; someone who violates the law; a criminal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who breaks (violates) the
law , acriminal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who violates the law
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Examples
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Unless, of course, the lawbreaker is the home-owner and the roommates are his tenants, in which case they would have to find a new place to live.
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Huh? Prosecutorial discretion may be exercized whether the alleged lawbreaker is the President or anyone else.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Unhinged Attacks on Nancy Pelosi 2009
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The only adverse feeling justifiable toward a lawbreaker is that he is weak or deficient; and it is a sufficient humiliation for him to be considered so, without an accompaniment of aversion or scorn.
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Unless, of course, the lawbreaker is the home-owner and the roommates are his tenants, in which case they would have to find a new place to live.
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A lawbreaker is a lawbreaker, especially when he's supposed to be a law enforcer.
unknown title 2009
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When you look at the timeline of these events (as pulled together by a reader over at TPM Muckraker), the defense mentioned by Mark Field above may be unavailable for less than a full day of the program's implementation (i.e., less than a full day of the President being a "lawbreaker").
Balkinization 2007
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Under his theory, I assume that the later changes in the program which allowed OLC to approve it would mean that the President should from that point forward no longer be considered a "lawbreaker".
Balkinization 2007
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Under his theory, I assume that the later changes in the program which allowed OLC to approve it would mean that the President should from that point forward no longer be considered a "lawbreaker".
Balkinization 2007
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When you look at the timeline of these events (as pulled together by a reader over at TPM Muckraker), the defense mentioned by Mark Field above may be unavailable for less than a full day of the program's implementation (i.e., less than a full day of the President being a "lawbreaker").
Balkinization 2007
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Under his theory, I assume that the later changes in the program which allowed OLC to approve it would mean that the President should from that point forward no longer be considered a "lawbreaker".
Balkinization 2007
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