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Delinquent :: Delinquent (n.) One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.

To :: To (prep.) Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him..

Trespasser :: Trespasser (n.) A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.

Indictable :: Indictable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense..

Miff :: Miff (v. t.) To offend slightly.

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet..

Picket :: Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake..

Offendant :: Offendant (n.) An offender.

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..

Hurt :: Hurt (v. t.) To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.

Offenseless :: Offenseless (a.) Unoffending; inoffensive.

Whereat :: Whereat (adv.) At what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat are you offended?.

Cuttystool :: Cuttystool (n.) A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister..

Exceed :: Exceed (v. t.) To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours..

Pardonable :: Pardonable (a.) Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit..

Punishment :: Punishment (n.) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention..

Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..

Pique :: Pique (v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.

Merciful :: Merciful (a.) Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.

Absolve :: Absolve (v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment..

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