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sex offender en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature.
   • Soon after our case, another convicted sex offender was released back into our community and was accepted as if nothing had happened. 2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian:
   • She then became a domestic and after a year was a sex offender for the first time. She had known the man for 2 years. Her sister discovered her relations with this man 8 months later and had her sent to the House of Good Shepherd. 1916, Clara Jean Weidensall, The Mentality Of The Criminal Woman, A Comparative Study Of The Criminal Woman, The Working Girl, And The Efficient Working Woman, In A Series Of Mental And Physical Tests, page 294:
   • Epstein, the deceased financier, sex offender and friend to the rich and famous, has been at the heart of a sprawling conspiracy theory about child sex-trafficking and the global elite since he killed himself in jail six years ago — a suicide that was reaffirmed by the FBI this month. 2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek:

Forms

Coordinates

sexual predator

Synonyms

sexual offender · sexo

Translations (25)

ja 性犯罪者 (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · fa مجرم جنسی (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · fr délinquante sexuelle (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · de Sexualverbrecher (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · pl przestępca seksualny (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · no seksualforbrytar (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · ga ciontóir gnéis (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · ru сексуа́льная престу́пница (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · fr délinquant sexuel (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · ko 성범죄자 (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · sv sexualbrottsling (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · da seksualforbryder (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · nl zedendelinquent (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · sv sexualförbrytare (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · fi seksuaalirikollinen (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · de Sexualverbrecherin (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · is kynferðisafbrotamaður (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · fo kyndarbrotsmaður (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · cmn 性犯罪者 (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · sv sexbrottsling (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · no sexforbryter (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · es delincuente sexual (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · pl przestępczyni seksualna (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · ru сексуа́льный престу́пник (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature) · da sexualforbryder (somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature)