malefactor
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
A person who commits a crime or does wrong.
The pamphlet urged that malefactors be shamed publicly rather than merely fined.
Law noun
A person who commits a crime or does evil; a wrongdoer.
The magistrate lectured the malefactor on the consequences of persistent dishonesty.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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