MEANING
A person committing serious wrongdoing or a criminal act.
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- convicted malefactor
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The malefactor vanished before dawn.
A convicted malefactor returned.
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- malefactor
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular malefactor; plural malefactors. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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