convict
IPA: kˈɑnvɪkt
noun
- (law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
- A person deported to a penal colony.
- The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
- A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
verb
- (transitive, law) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
- (chiefly religion) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
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Examples of "convict" in Sentences
- The convict absconded.
- The state banished the convict.
- He was convicted of shoplifting.
- The judge exonerated the convict.
- The woman is convicted for rapine.
- The core of the gang was convicted.
- The life of the convict was expendable.
- The proprietor of the business was convicted.
- If I get arrested and convicted, I'm a convicted shoplifter.
- Appellant was convicted of a criminal violation of the ordinance.
- In CA, every first time drug possession convict is already offered out-of-prison treatment.
- A mercenary spaceship ferrying a convict is attacked by a horde of unidentified fighter craft.
- Oh well, the stir, or the pen, as they call it in convict argot, is a training school for philosophy.
- But why rely on those generalizations when a convict is already being scrutinized at the individual level?
- It doesn't help that in spite of being a first-term convict serving a short sentence for bank robbery, Chaffee was a nice guy.
- Next time, he hears a murder report I hope he remembers that his Green River convict is enjoying the good life in Walla Walla.
- Rourke will play a convict from a Mexican prison who is sold into the game, and 50 Cent the man employed to escort him to the bloody game.
- Billy had told her of the great perch Cal Hutchins caught on the day of the eclipse, when he had little dreamed the heart of his manhood would be spent in convict's garb.
- [Note, however, that some courts hold, controversially, that a pardon does not preclude the imposition of attorney discipline based on the underlying conduct, because a pardon “cannot work such moral changes as to warrant the assertion that a pardoned convict is just as reliable as one who has constantly maintained the character of a good citizen.”]
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