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Recidivist Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ist

Recidivist has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)

2

someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior

3

One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.

See Also
recidivism prior recidivistic recidivous grypsera criminal nonrecidivist recidivists
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
criminal wrongdoer
Rhyming Words
ist nist kist uist hist bist dist list jist wist mist sist iist cist rist gist fist trist feist boist
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