Criminal and Defector

Criminal

Criminal noun - A person who has committed a crime.

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Defector and criminal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Defector" instead a noun "Criminal".

Defector noun - A person who abandons a cause or organization usually without right.

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Criminal and defector are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Criminal" instead a noun "Defector".

fellow	fellow criminal	fellow defector
female	female criminal	female defector
alien	alien criminal	alien defector
real	real criminal	real defector
Other adjectives: potential, major, former, Nazi, greatest, occasional, said.

Defector from Decadence: In Firefight, he essentially quits on the Reckoners as led by Prof in order to fight criminal Epics, rather than fighting Epics for the fact they are Epics.

Source: Characters / The Reckoners Trilogy
This isn't because she opposed the killing itself, as she'd already ordered Roman Torchwick, a local known criminal, to kill the defector in the first place.

Source: Pragmatic Villainy aka: Pragmatic Villain
Fake Defector: Both "Max Ray... Traitor" and "Cyborg Centurion" feature one of the Centurions pretending to turn against the team in order to infiltrate a criminal organization.

Source: Western Animation / Centurions

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