misdemeanist

plural misdemeanists

1. One who commits a misdemeanor.

   Courts have held in many instances that it is better to allow a misdemeanist to escape rather than take his life.

   1948, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings, page 61

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   Never did a misdemeanist take his “six weeks” with a more complete consciousness of penalty than did Polly sit down to that piano. She well understood it as a sentence, and, let me own, submitted well and gracefully to her fate.

   1895, Charles Lever, The Novels of Charles Lever, page 193