misdemeanant
English
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[edit]misdemeanant (plural misdemeanants)
- (now chiefly US) Someone convicted of a misdemeanor. [from 19th c.]
- Someone guilty of misconduct; a wrongdoer. [from 19th c.]
- 1921, Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor, London: Allen & Unwin, page 114:
- How much more rational, and probably equally deterrent, it would be to mulct a wilful misdemeanant in work-coupons than to shut him up in a dark room!