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Recidivists
One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
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One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| backslidernoun | A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate. |
| repeaternoun | One who or that which repeats. |
| reversionistnoun | One who clings to previous patterns of behavior or thought, rejecting social or cultural change. |
| habitual criminalnoun | someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) |
| failuresnoun | State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success. |
| offendersnoun | A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker. |
| recidivateverb | (intransitive) To relapse into a previous pattern of behavior, especially to commit new offenses after having been punished or sanctioned for earlier ones. |
| recidive | Synonym of recidivous (“prone to relapse”). |
| recidivismnoun | Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past. |
| recurrencesnoun | The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence. |
| relapsesnoun | (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement |
| recreantsnoun | Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor. |
| criminalsnoun | a 1975 Indian Malayalam film, directed by S. Babu and produced by Salam Karassery. |
| relapsingverb | (archaic) A relapse. |
| recurrencenoun | The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence. |
| reoccurrencenoun | Something that takes place again. |
| relapsenoun | (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement |
| criminalitynoun | (uncountable) Criminal activity. |
| delinquentsnoun | A person who has not paid their debts. |
| perpetratorsnoun | One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime. |
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