sex offender

plural sex offenders

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

   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

   2 more examples

   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 Tests, page 294

   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.

   2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek

   Synonyms: sexual offender, sexo