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Law-breaker   Listen
noun
law-breaker, lawbreaker  n.  One who disobeys the law; someone who violates the law; a criminal.
Synonyms: violator, lawbreaker, law breaker, perpetrator.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Law-breaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... man accuses your brother of being a law-breaker! Have you hitherto known of any criminal ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair

... ought to be recognized as partners in his moral errors. Among another people, reared under wiser care and with better companions, how different might he not have been! How can we speak of him as a law-breaker who might have saved him from that name?" Here the speaker turned to Jean Thompson, and changed his speech to English. "A lady sez to me to-day: 'Pere Jerome, 'ow dat is a dreadfool dat 'e gone at de coas' of Cuba to be one corsair! Aint it?' 'Ah, ...
— Madame Delphine • George W. Cable

... a sma' matter to be entered in the records of the Burgh court as a petty law-breaker. And if I continued to feed the dog I would be ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson

... great principle laid down so clearly by the apostle Peter, 'We ought to obey God rather than man.' Nor need I remind you that if a man, for conscience sake, refuses to render active obedience to an unrighteous law, and unresistingly accepts the appointed penalty, he is not properly regarded as a law-breaker. ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren

... burglar. Finding that nothing more could be learned in Des Moines, and receiving assurances from the friendly chief that any information would be forwarded to him at once, Manning departed from the home of the youthful law-breaker and started ...
— The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives • Allan Pinkerton

... pattern as those which obtain among us to-day, but with this difference, that with the onward march of Improvement, hand-in-hand with the progress of Science and Civilization, have also grimly stalked fashionably-clothed and modernly-equipped Crime and the scientifically-perfected law-breaker, with his modern and improved methods. Man's villainies, like his other passions, remain the same to-day as when the murderous club of Cain crushed the skull of his brother Abel, and the maiden earth was crimsoned with the first blood that appealed for vengeance. They ...
— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe

... never shame a man who puts his trust in thee. I say that I shall tell our captain thou art coming. Ah, shame me not before the Commandant and all my comrades! Thou thinkest me a thief, a lawbreaker, because I took that fellow's knife?' he asked, with an indulgent smile. 'Let me tell thee, O my lord, that I was in my right and duty as a soldier of the Sultan in this province. It is that muleteer who, truly speaking, ...
— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall

... at their command, and inspired by intense interest to paint him as black a villain as possible, these reporters signally failed to disclose a single indictment which charged Robert Charles with a crime. Because they failed to find any legal evidence that Charles was a lawbreaker and desperado his accusers gave full license to their imagination and distorted the facts that they had obtained, in every way possible, to prove a course of criminality, which the records ...
— Mob Rule in New Orleans • Ida B. Wells-Barnett



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