Synonym: wrongdoer. Similar words: defender, gender, tender, render, independent, independence, offense, offensive. Meaning: [ə'fendə(r)] 
n. a person who transgresses moral or civil law.
n. a person who transgresses moral or civil law. 
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1 The offender apologized when he sobered up.
2 The offender withheld the truth from the policemen.
3 As a first offender, he received a lenient sentence.
4 At 16, Scott was already a persistent offender .
5 The young offender had to be remanded in custody for ten days.
6 The contraceptive pill is the worst offender,[www.Sentencedict.com] but it is not the only drug to deplete the body's vitamin levels.
7 The offender was extruded.
8 She is a persistent offender and has been arrested five times this year for shoplifting.
9 As a first offender, she got off with a caution.
10 The offender must make restitution for the hurt that he or she has caused.
11 Eachuinn Odhar would deal with any offender.
12 Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
13 In earlier, less complicated times an offender might be banished, mutilated or hanged.
14 That an offender can be held criminally liable for the unintended consequences of his or her actions is a well-established legal principle.
15 If so the alleged offender may be held in custody to await trial.
16 Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and could tempt an offender into further crime.
17 The judge will delay his verdict until he receives medical reports on the offender.
18 They were sentenced to 12 months' detention in a young offender institution.
19 The punishment should be proportionate to the gravity of the offence and the degree of culpability of the offender.
20 Among causes of air pollution,(sentencedict.com) car exhaust fumes may be the worst offender .
21 When it comes to pollution, the chemical industry is a major offender.
22 At a deeper level, however, the concept of the mentally abnormal female offender has come under scrutiny.
23 That would put a lighter burden on the prosecution, and improve the chances of convicting an offender.
24 Beyond all these institutional complexities lies the prison, the probation service and mechanisms for dealing with the convicted offender.
25 Yet Liquid Gold is by no means the worst offender.
26 The second was the uncertainty as to the time the offender would spend in prison.
27 Failure to disperse after it has been read publicly by a magistrate or other official may render an offender liable to imprisonment.
28 The probation service and voluntary agencies were to be funded to provide an alternative form of punishment for the less serious offender.
29 Most homicides were unplanned, and few brought any benefit to the offender even if he avoided punishment.
30 Argyll would deal - impersonally, as was his way - with any offender.
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