Criminal and Inmate

Criminal

Criminal noun - A person who has committed a crime.

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

Inmate noun - One of several residents of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital).

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Criminal and inmate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Criminal" instead a noun "Inmate".

fellow	fellow criminal	fellow inmate
old	old criminal	old inmate
female	female criminal	female inmate
particular	particular criminal	particular inmate
Other adjectives: typical, certain, alien, single, powerful, violent, dangerous, evil, young, new, former, random, last, insane, different, escaped, said, feared, sadistic, sociopathic.

Charlie Bronson, England's most expensive inmate, in Bronson, based on the real life criminal.

Source: Bald of Awesome
In another stand-up, a white-collar criminal says he's in for embezzling funds, and his fellow inmate replies that he's in for stealing 48 pairs of socks.

Source: What Are You in For?
The other inmate (the dangerous criminal) witnessed this and used his influence to get the guards to leave Edalji alone.

Source: Prison Rape

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