sex offender

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sex offender (plural sex offenders)

  1. Somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature.
    Coordinate term: sexual predator
    • 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:
      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.
    • 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:
      Soon after our case, another convicted sex offender was released back into our community and was accepted as if nothing had happened.
    • 2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek‎[1]:
      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.

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