sex offender

Noun

sex offender (plural sex offenders)

1. Somebody who has committed a crime of a sexual nature.
   • 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...
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   sexual offender, sexo