recidivist
ruh si di vist
- n someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
- n someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
- Running against a former leader of the Duvaliers' repressive Tontons Macoutes and a handful of recidivist candidates, Aristide turned a lackluster election into a colorful .
- Its glances at the fast, present and probable future of the world's most recidivist nation should stimulate audiences to ask themselves the same question.
- Before being transformed into the irradiated Sandman, Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), the recidivist hoodlum and murderer of Peter's sainted uncle goes all soft and .