firebug

Examples

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• This firebug's on one of his P7 1 sprees; he's gonna make it a long week.

  Fiction book (1993)

• He is promising to give our brave police heroes much stronger powers to fight the firebugs and the anti fire woke brigade.

• Well, well, well, if it isn't the firebug?

  Under the Bed (2012)

• He was also a firebug.

  Shutter Island (2010)

• We all know Little Johnny,' the man said, 'and we all know he's a firebug.'

  Academic text (1994)

• He's a firebug, well, that's an easy way of putting it, but yes.

  Torture Chamber (2013)

• They caught the firebug last year; it was rather embarrassing; he turned out to be the son of a local minister; but the house is isolated, and --

  Fiction book (1992)

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  Blog text (29)

• Then, when he finally struck, he'd allowed himself the extra satisfaction of discovering the body and phoning it in to the police, like a firebug coming back to watch the firemen battle the blaze he'd set.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The police caught the firebug who set the abandoned warehouse ablaze.

Synonyms

A

arsonist

vsfirebug

34 5.8

A person who illegally sets fire to buildings or other property to damage them

is the same illegal act but the key description omits explicit deliberate wording

P

pyromaniac

vsfirebug

• Specialized

5 9.7

A person who feels a strong need to set fires

focuses on illegal property setting rather than a psychological compulsion

I

incendiary

vsfirebug

• NSFW

1 8.4

A person who illegally sets fire to buildings or other property

is the same meaning with no difference in intent or scope

T

torcher

vsfirebug

9.9

A person who starts fires on purpose

focuses on illegal property damage rather than any act of burning

Antonyms

F

firefighter

271 2.1

A person who puts out fires and saves people from danger

Surface Forms

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Etymology