Synonyms of the word

outlaw

• n. A fugitive from the law.
• n. (historical) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without…
• n. A person who operates outside established norms.
• n. A wild horse.
• n. (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
• n. (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
• v. To declare illegal.
• v. To place a ban upon.
• v. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
• v. To deprive of legal force.

criminal

• adj. Being against the law; forbidden by law.
• adj. Guilty of breaking the law.
• adj. Of or relating to crime or penal law.
• adj. (figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.
• n. A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

criminalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criminalize.

criminalize

• v. (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.

crook

• n. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
• n. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
• n. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
• n. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
• n. (obsolete) A gibbet.
• n. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting…
• n. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
• n. A bishop's staff of office.
• n. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
• n. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
• n. A pothook.
• n. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
• v. (transitive) To bend.
• v. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.

disallow

• v. To refuse to allow.
• v. To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper.

felon

• n. A person who has committed a felony.
• n. (law) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
• n. (medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

illegal

• adj. Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
• adj. Forbidden by established rules.
• adj. (philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent…
• adj. (of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally.
• adj. (chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
• n. (colloquial, offensive) An illegal immigrant.
• n. An illegal resident spy.

illegalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of illegalize.

illegalize

• v. To make illegal; to prohibit by law, to criminalize.

illegitimate

• adj. Illegal; against the law.
• adj. Born to unmarried parents.
• adj. Illogical; incorrectly deduced.
• adj. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious.
• adj. (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously…
• n. someone born illegitimately.

illicit

• adj. (law) Not approved by law, but not invalid.
• adj. Breaking social norms.
• adj. Unlawful.

interdict

• n. A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power…
• v. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services;…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
• v. (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.
• v. (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply…

lawless

• adj. Not governed by any law.
• adj. Prohibited by law; unlawful, illegal.
• adj. Not restrained by the law or by discipline; unruly, disorderly.

malefactor

• n. A criminal or felon.
• n. An evildoer.

offender

• n. One who gives or causes offense.
• n. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

outlawed

• adj. (of an act) put beyond the limits of the law, forbidden, against the law.
• adj. (of a person) put beyond the limits of the law, declared an outlaw or declared a criminal.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of outlaw.

prohibit

• v. (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

proscribe

• v. (transitive) To forbid or prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To denounce.
• v. (transitive) To banish or exclude.

unlawful

• adj. Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).

veto

• n. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
• n. An invocation of that right.
• n. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
• v. (transitive) To use a veto against.

wrongdoer

• n. Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.