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UK
/tɹænsɡɹˈɛsɐ/
]
[ US /tɹænzˈɡɹɛsɝ/ ]
[ US /tɹænzˈɡɹɛsɝ/ ]
NOUN
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someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command
the way of transgressors is hard
How To Use transgressor In A Sentence
- Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
- This is plainly ludicrous, and if the transgressors don't learn their lesson soon, the rest of us will certainly appreciate the irony when they're surviving on their children's benefits.
- Now, in this land the path of the transgressor is strewn with barbed wire, and so my mistress got entangled in some loose strands that had uncoiled from the fence. Janey Canuck in the West
- Ultimately, we need to have a zero tolerance policy and if that means the police pressing charges against any transgressors, then so be it.
- Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
- For the US conservative it is also inextricable from the abhorrence through which any “overly” strong woman is judged as a moral transgressor, in a vilely reactionary misogyny. Archive 2009-01-01
- But we apparently choose to make an example out of petty transgressors such as these to lull ourselves into the belief that we're winning the battle against crime!
- Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
- But if the stiff-necked transgressors cannot be persuaded, they can be cowed and conquered.
- Too often we condemn corruption and crime because it is the popular, right-thinking thing to do, while at the same time we welcome back the transgressors, or fail to practise what we preach.