Malefactor (noun)
mal-e-fak-te
(formal) A person who commits a crime or some other wrong.
Late Middle English from Latin, from malefact- ‘done wrong’, from the verb malefacere, from male ‘ill’ + facere ‘do’.
Example sentences
“She was a terrible malefactor and the punishment matched the crimes.”
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